variants
or less commonly immesh
enmeshed also immeshed; enmeshing also immeshing; enmeshes also immeshes
: to catch or entangle in or as if in meshes
deeply enmeshed in the plot
Examples of enmesh in a Sentence
soon after Eli Whitney had invented it, others copied his cotton gin, and he spent the rest of his life enmeshed in lawsuits trying to protect his invention
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In these, the enemy is not a standing army but various terrorist organizations and looser categories of hostiles, enmeshed in large civilian populations.
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Colin Jones, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
America’s elite universities are already deeply enmeshed with top schools abroad, from engineering partnerships with the Indian Institute of Technology to the Persian Gulf campuses of Georgetown, Texas A&M and NYU.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Based on the novel by Dennis Tafoya, the series follows Ray as he becomes increasingly enmeshed in a complex web of crime and cover-ups.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2025
In short, the necessary ingredients of all-in AI innovation won’t be enmeshed in the AI Continent keystones, which, regrettably, ultimately the restraints and limits on AI will undermine the upbeat and rosy aspirations accordingly.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Colin Jones, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
America’s elite universities are already deeply enmeshed with top schools abroad, from engineering partnerships with the Indian Institute of Technology to the Persian Gulf campuses of Georgetown, Texas A&M and NYU.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Based on the novel by Dennis Tafoya, the series follows Ray as he becomes increasingly enmeshed in a complex web of crime and cover-ups.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2025
In short, the necessary ingredients of all-in AI innovation won’t be enmeshed in the AI Continent keystones, which, regrettably, ultimately the restraints and limits on AI will undermine the upbeat and rosy aspirations accordingly.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for enmesh
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“Enmesh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enmesh. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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enmesh
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en·mesh
in-ˈmesh 
: to entangle in or as if in meshes
was enmeshed in a series of disputes
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