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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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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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This Levoit vacuum just dropped under $200, and its impressive ability to pick up hair without any tangles is a pet owner’s dream.
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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.
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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.
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One of the biggest traps organizations fall into is assuming employees already know what behaviors are valued.
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And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.
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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.
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By his spiritual discernment, the prophet Elisha was repeatedly able to warn the king of Israel about ambushes planned by the king of Syria.
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Cuba also maintains elite forces trained for counter-special-operations missions, guerrilla warfare, ambushes, sabotage and close protection of senior leaders.
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Microservices introduced flexibility but also required service meshes, observability platforms and policy controls.
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Functional mapping techniques, for instance, can relate similar shapes but are restricted to open-loop motions on clean meshes.
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Sanders catches more than fish in his nets, of course.
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The father wanted nets and the smell of the wharf.
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Zelizer said Trump’s financial entanglements might be the most monarchical part of his administration.
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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.
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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.
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To test that, the final group completed cognitively demanding games such as mazes and shape puzzles called tangrams that contained no academic content.
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“Webs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/webs. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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