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[en-tang-guhl] / ɛnˈtæŋ gəl /


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It’s written in a broad way that could entangle Congress in other aspects of city governance, which probably isn’t a good use of lawmakers’ time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

"I was talking with other students who believe this technology can be used in swarm robotics -- where small robots can entangle, do a task and then disentangle when they are done," said Pezeshki.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

By cooling and manipulating these atoms, scientists can entangle them and perform highly precise computations.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

It's designed to trap and entangle Russian drones and stop them hitting the vehicles beneath.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

Surely Forest would not entangle the poor woman yet.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry

It nestles and entangles itself in for the long haul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Those numbers, however, don't amount to much in the grand scheme, given the rate at which Louisiana "incarcerates and prosecutes and entangles people in the criminal legal system left and right every day," Romero said.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024

It has put banks on high alert, though their efforts to catch the fraud also routinely entangles innocent customers, causing institutions to suddenly freeze or shut down customer accounts in the process.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2023

A series of gates entangles the helpers with the original qubits, which effectively transfers noise from the system to the helpers.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 19, 2022

It then entangles its claws in the web to hold itself in place while the skin is cast.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

The new measurement approach could also contribute to new quantum communication protocols, methods for transferring multi-photon quantum entangled states, and new forms of measurement-based quantum computing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the worst case she has seen, one of her clients was entangled in what appeared to be a romance scam.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

"This shows just how entangled our medicines are with the non-human world," Dr Freymann told BBC News.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Tourtsakis explained it to me like this: The process relied on the crystals in the room, which were quantum entangled with particles out in space.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

He remembered their arms entangled, their stupid little inside jokes, the way he felt when he would come over to her house after school and see her reading through the window.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

The other $0.9 trillion is the Treasury’s General Account, where the Treasury parks cash awaiting disbursement—an entangling service the Fed only began providing in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Washington's warning about the dangers of entangling alliances was followed for 150 years.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

More consolidation – and more influential corporate giants – risks more deeply entangling the interests of profit-driven companies in America’s food system.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024

The Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

On the left flank, Grover and his nature spirits were regrouping, entangling the enemies with bushes and weeds.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan




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