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 The move represents a dramatic shift from Trump’s earlier resistance to deeper U.S. entanglement in foreign wars. Brian Bennett, Time, 22 June 2025 And of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy. Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 5 July 2025 Manatees also are vulnerable to boat strikes, entanglement in fishing gear and ingestion of marine debris. Amy Green, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025 But, when Trump then left the door open to a regime change, fears among supporters increased about the possibility of U.S. entanglement abroad. Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for entanglement
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Noun
  • This creates abnormal amounts of protein deposits called tangles, which kill brain cells.
    George Petras, USA Today, 29 July 2025
  • Lying nearby is a tangle of thin string that is defining the war now – not fishing net, but fiber-optic cable, used to prevent drones being jammed.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • Undervaluing Yourself To Avoid Conflict Many professionals, especially those early in their careers, fall into the trap of lowballing their worth out of fear.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • That’s the trap with a character like this — writing to a joke versus writing to her worldview and her attitude.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
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  • That is why this fiction is not built on facts, but rather on traversing the labyrinths of memory.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 15 July 2025
  • No matter how complicated the labyrinth of modern politics becomes, that thread will lead us through.
    Linda McMahon, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • The Talos post was published around the same time that the dark web site belonging to BlackSuit began displaying a message saying the site had been seized in Operation CheckMate.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 26 July 2025
  • Meta lost the race to control the operating systems for the mobile web era in the early 2000s and 2010s, which Apple and Google won.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • Thursday’s game resembled the dizzying maze of turns of F1 courses, rather than the smooth oval racing NASCAR showcases in Bristol.
    David O'Brien, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2025
  • That mental maze, which is typical in this area of research, experts say, is something that sensationalized news coverage often fails to acknowledge.
    Sarah Scoles, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2025

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“Entanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entanglement. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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