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as in tangles
something that catches and holds
he was caught in the web of branches she was trapped by her own web of lies
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2
as in traps
a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise
an ingenious web that was spun by undercover agents going after drug dealers
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for webs
Noun
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Accessories should be minimal and delicate, to avoid any tangles mid-journey.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
14 Jan. 2026 -
But the seven-member volunteer commission — long expected to take the reins from OPD’s federal overseers — still seems to be struggling to gain footing within Oakland’s complex bureaucratic tangles.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But talking about identity has ever-shifting rules and hierarchies that amount to bear-traps that can spring at any time.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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Employee food handler cards were expired, insect traps were hanging from the ceiling in the food prep area and raw meat juice was found in the bottom of the freezer.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
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Separated by labyrinths of creeks and smaller cays, each one represents a stepping stone away from civilization, Parrish told me.—
Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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In the months before the surge in operations, police lost 25 armored vehicles to ambushes involving barricades, trenches and Molotov cocktail attacks, authorities said.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
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Hamas has used the tunnels to store weapons, hide hostages and stage ambushes of Israeli soldiers.—
Samuel Granados,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Ensuring Service-To-Service Integrity In modern architectures, applications are composed of microservices that rely on one another through APIs, messaging queues and service meshes.—
Ronak Desai,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Stylistically, Wilson’s top-end speed and willingness to go over the middle to make contested catches meshes with Rodgers.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Snowflakes drift down like tiny nets, moving slowly and exposing lots of surface area, gathering more pollutants than fast-falling raindrops.—
Isabel Lopez,
Parents,
11 Feb. 2026
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The staff had bored holes in the nearby ice to set nets for whitefish and turbot.—
Boris Fishman,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Feb. 2026
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Yet despite the growing global consensus that all trysts should start on the opposite sides of a hockey puck, most real-life skating entanglements occur between athletes on the same team.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
3 Feb. 2026
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Sudden shifts in intimacy or financial entanglements can disrupt what once felt fun, flirtatious or uncomplicated.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
3 Feb. 2026
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But all those columns turning the platforms into mazes?—
Robert Yaro,
New York Daily News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Its floors are mazes of narrow corridors packed with African clothing stalls, salons, barbers, jewelry stores and halal eateries.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
6 Dec. 2025
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“Webs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/webs. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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