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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

Over an hour into a high-speed chase with the suspect, the sheriff’s department botched the deployment of a “grappler” net system intended to entangle the back wheels of the car to slow it down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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

But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

A mass of knotted rope entangles like tentacles or whirs when swung by a spinning dancer.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Tell wit how much it wrangles In tickle points of nicenesse; Tell wisdome she entangles Herselfe in over-wisenesse; And if they do reply, Straight give them both the lye.

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt

The concentrated sunlight can then be directed onto the tiny nonlinear crystal responsible for producing the entangled photons.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

About the 10th or 12th time Spidey defeats a gaggle of adversaries by wrapping them up in webs, this series seems entangled in its own predictability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Archer’s main competitor in the air taxi space is Joby, a startup based in Santa Cruz that has been entangled in a bitter legal battle with Archer for more than a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Schiller delves, inevitably, into the history of AARP, an organization that even in its earliest days was entangled with the health insurance industry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The article began by describing Bohr’s becoming entangled in his microphone cord, drawing a pained high-pitched squeal from the loudspeaker.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Airstrikes have long been a go-to way to project military power for U.S. administrations that want to minimize the risk of American casualties and avoid entangling ground wars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 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

If the hair is longer than 2 inches, bury it in the soil to avoid entangling birds’ feet, she recommends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

In the new paper, the team reports near-flawless performance of its two-qubit entangling gates with extremely low error rates.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023

He rose quickly as though to cast off some entangling danger.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck