tanglements

plural of tanglement
as in tangles
something that catches and holds legal tanglements stemming from the museum's refusal to return the looted carvings

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Noun
  • This Levoit vacuum just dropped under $200, and its impressive ability to pick up hair without any tangles is a pet owner’s dream.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2026
  • Tuohy found that only our top overall robovac pick, the Matic, did a better job on hard surfaces, while the Saros 20’s DuoDivide brush is designed to resist hair tangles, reducing the amount of maintenance required.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • This is because the infrastructure of the city traps in all of the heat that built up during the day, thus preventing a normal nocturnal cooldown seen in non-urban settings.
    Matthew Villafane, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • One of the biggest traps organizations fall into is assuming employees already know what behaviors are valued.
    Amee Desjourdy, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Microservices introduced flexibility but also required service meshes, observability platforms and policy controls.
    Nishanth Prakash, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Functional mapping techniques, for instance, can relate similar shapes but are restricted to open-loop motions on clean meshes.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Zelizer said Trump’s financial entanglements might be the most monarchical part of his administration.
    Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
  • The Republic’s first decades were shaped by the rivalry between the British and French empires, and George Washington used his farewell address to warn his countrymen against permanent foreign entanglements.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.
    Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
  • Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • There has to be a chance that Jos Buttler’s toils in Sri Lanka and India represent his last ventures on the international stage, and therefore the end of an era.
    Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Both were premised on the idea of frictionless ease, liberating their users from outmoded toils.
    Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • With their billowing sails, teakwood decks and mazes of ropes and rigging, ships like Eagle draw throngs of visitors hoping to get a glimpse of the past.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • To test that, the final group completed cognitively demanding games such as mazes and shape puzzles called tangrams that contained no academic content.
    Supreet Kaur, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Sanders catches more than fish in his nets, of course.
    Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2026
  • The father wanted nets and the smell of the wharf.
    Anthony Scaramucci, Fortune, 28 June 2026
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“Tanglements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanglements. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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