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as in tangled
to twist together into a usually confused mass
in the process of taking down the Christmas tree, we managed to entangle the string of lights into a hopeless mess of wires
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as in trapped
to catch or hold as if in a net
the young runaway gradually became entangled in a web of lies
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as in complicated
to make complex or difficult
the history of Alexander the Great is entangled by variant accounts of his exploits
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Recent Examples of entangled
But Brown became entangled in a controversy of her own this spring when she was indicted alongside her two adult daughters on charges of wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud used to falsely obtain pandemic relief loans.
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Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Great Commission was also set up and is being run by some of David Jang's most prominent disciples, including those within Olivet University leadership and some of those entangled in the sect's legal problems.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
What looks automatable at a distance may be deeply entangled with things GenAI can't yet replicate.
—London Business School, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The GirlsDoPorn matter has also entangled popular free sites such as PornHub.
—Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
In the years after their split, the exes were entangled in a heated custody battle involving Hudson.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The dozens of lawsuits that followed had been entangled in legal imbroglios about how to interpret the untested law.
—Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
The parade, then, demonstrates a rootedness that is complex and plural, entangled with shifting identities and complicated histories.
—Héctor M. Varela Rios, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
After getting entangled in a puzzling murder, the two go on the run to solve the case while also trying to piece their relationship back together.
—James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Great Commission was also set up and is being run by some of David Jang's most prominent disciples, including those within Olivet University leadership and some of those entangled in the sect's legal problems.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
What looks automatable at a distance may be deeply entangled with things GenAI can't yet replicate.
—London Business School, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The GirlsDoPorn matter has also entangled popular free sites such as PornHub.
—Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
In the years after their split, the exes were entangled in a heated custody battle involving Hudson.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The dozens of lawsuits that followed had been entangled in legal imbroglios about how to interpret the untested law.
—Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
The parade, then, demonstrates a rootedness that is complex and plural, entangled with shifting identities and complicated histories.
—Héctor M. Varela Rios, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
After getting entangled in a puzzling murder, the two go on the run to solve the case while also trying to piece their relationship back together.
—James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entangled
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Tatum plays Jeffrey Manchester, a veteran tangled haplessly up in good intentions and a life of petty crime.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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He got tangled up in a rundown with two other future Hall of Famers, George Kell and Luis Aparicio.—
Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Trying to pin down what a novelist actually believes is a sure way to get trapped in a labyrinth of misreadings and fallacies.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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Juno orbits Jupiter once every 33 days, and the trajectory brings the spacecraft through intense radiation belts trapped by the planet's powerful magnetic field.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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For Donohue, a one-on-one discussion with Hunt and a later meeting with his constituents further complicated his decision.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Defining a tip in the digital creative space could be complicated, said Alex Muresianu, a senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation.—
Bloomberg News,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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But evidently these stories have stuck with me, too, achingly knotted into the threads holding my heart together.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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Orlando knotted the match later in the second half when Pride forward Aly Watt got on the end of service from the right flank.—
Mercury News staff,
Mercury News,
14 Sep. 2025
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As summer gives way to fall—cooler nights, busier days—there are more opportunities to be present, to be deliberate, to be enmeshed in the dailiness of one’s life.—
Julia Hass,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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Lam advocates for a broad reintroduction of discretion, through which people enmeshed in bureaucracies would be given more room to make individual decisions.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Entangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entangled. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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