tangle

Early Portuguese colonizers described those forests as forming a dense tangle, or "maranhão."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

It warned Russia not to tangle with the British Lion and expressed imperial Britain’s self-confidence at the height of its power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

"It's very important that the hundred rowers coordinate because the oars are quite long and they will tangle with each other," Trammell Hudson stressed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

During the nature walk, we ambled down a tangle of dirt trails as Fadel pointed out wild rose bushes, Aspen trees and elderberry, giving a recipe for syrup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

“She’s ensnared in a tangle of weeds. They’re caught within her fur, and she cannot escape, Handsome!”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Two days remain in one of the greatest tangles in bass fishing history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Unnecessary tangles with defenders are so often a hallmark of Delap's do-or-die approach, even when playing his best football.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Researchers evaluated three major features associated with Alzheimer's disease: amyloid-beta plaques, tau tangles, and neuritic plaques, which are amyloid plaques surrounded by damaged nerve cells.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

But consent decrees are legally and politically complicated, and the treatment of migrant children further tangles the situation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Nailer grabbed desperately for a better handhold, hooking his arm through the tangles.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

Since becoming vice-president, he has occasionally tangled with Pope Leo and his papal predecessor Francis, on issues including the Trump administration's immigration policy.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

This fork in the road looms but so, let’s admit, does the possibility of society becoming tangled up in legally paralyzing questions of machine sentience, pushed by certain avid humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

His far stranger movie after that, 2019’s “Under the Silver Lake,” was a genre-defying Los Angeles comic-noir with Andrew Garfield as a hipster tangled up in a bizarre cult.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

One excellent vegetable can be cooked down with butter and tangled through pasta.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Instead of working her way back to the house like Buddy had figured, she got all tangled up in the bushes, then twisted her ankle and fell.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

They were also playing without their best receiver, DK Metcalf, who’d received a two-game suspension for tangling with a fan in Detroit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

Still, that hasn’t stopped their subreddit and user base—which is smaller than either r/PublicFreakout’s or r/FreeLuigi’s—from tangling with the new reality.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

When he was tangling with James on the mat, Henley never considered how much of an influence the training would have on the field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2024

City earlier lost midfielder Rodri to injury 21 minutes into the game when he appeared to twist his knee while tangling with Arsenal's Thomas Partey.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024

Why, with a car like that, he would no longer have to hang onto his tail to keep it from tangling in the spokes.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary