as in complicated
having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated
it helps to have a lawyer to sort out the tangled contracts that home buyers typically have to contend with
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as in trapped
to catch or hold as if in a net
was at last tangled in the web of lies that he had told to everyone
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as in knotted
to twist together into a usually confused mass
that darn cat tangled the yarn I was trying to knit with
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Recent Examples of tangled
Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
But the country’s new leaders will also have to look outward, balancing the tangled, sometimes contradictory interests of many foreign powers — some friendly, some hostile, some wary.
—Josh Holder, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Hulu is going deeper into the tangled web of Tell Me Lies.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2024
The water that flooded into some tents in Deir al-Balah soaked everything inside, leaving blankets and carpets a tangled, dusty mess.
—Abeer Salman, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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The scandal involves a tangled web of personalities and businesses.
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Construed as a pedagogical exercise more than entertainment, the film offers a deep reading into the complicated plurality of the populace that constitutes nations such as Germany.—
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Their final conflict goes down on Silver’s yacht in the middle of the open water, as Silver ridicules Kreese for his complicated relationship with Johnny.—
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These new platforms need to be able to embrace intricate supply chain data, real-time alerting, and complex decision-support tradeoffs.—
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Their songs contained more complex sounds, and the mice switched between those sounds in more intricate patterns.—
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That the aircraft impacted the ground so violently will no doubt complicate investigators' work, given the state of the physical evidence, Axios' Fitzpatrick adds.—
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Strong winds sweeping through L.A. continue to spread the wildfires as well as complicate containment, with the biggest blaze — the Palisades fire — only 11 percent contained, fire officials estimated.—
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For over 15 years, David E.A. Johnson dedicated his career to solving some of the world’s most complex security challenges driven by criminal networks.—
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The recipe also calls for two kinds of chocolate—in this case, milk and bittersweet—to create a more complex, sophisticated flavor that’s not overly sweet.—
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“Tangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tangled. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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