as in tangle
something that catches and holds his life is greatly complicated by his romantic entanglements

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Recent Examples of entanglement In episode 12, Jamie makes his feelings about Claire and John’s entanglement clear in a long, heated sequence where Jamie and Claire are working through their own emotions in real time. Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025 This allowed the nascent nation to develop its interests without foreign entanglements. Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025 Read Next National Whale entanglements reach 6-year high on the West Coast, report says. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025 The agreement is intended to minimize bycatch — the accidental entanglement of mammals fishers weren’t intending to haul aboard. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for entanglement
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  • Why isn’t there space for an organic unfurling, a messy tangle of threads that overlap and deviate?
    Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Figuring out why tangles are so tricky could help scientists predict when people’s snap judgments about a physical situation are likely to be wrong, leading to unsafe reactions.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025
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  • Many business owners fall into the trap of believing that busyness is the same as being productive.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Another slice of the trailer appears to be showing a chain of explosions going off, indicating that players might be able to set up more complex traps or breaches than currently.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
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  • Is this a burgeoning love affair or just another con job stacked on top of a labyrinth of deceptions?
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Through the Delta, the state and federal governments supply tap water to two-thirds of the state’s population and irrigation water to millions of acres of farms, with a labyrinth of levees, pumps and islands controlling the balance of saltwater and freshwater.
    Heather Knight, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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  • Take a deep breath because these claims form just one part of a clumsy web of viral content, in which Ronaldo, Messi and their children are part of the collateral.
    Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Breaking free from this web requires not just brute force but precise, intelligent tools.
    Prajwalkumar Bhatkar, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
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  • Said to be the largest indoor market in Latin America, the 430,000-square-foot maze of hallways and booths offers an immersion-therapy-style introduction to Mexican market culture, with sections devoted to everything from soccer jerseys to caged birds.
    Freda Moon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The result is an ominous death rattle for cinema as it was known through the 20th century, and a frightening funhouse maze without a center.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025

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“Entanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entanglement. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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