embroilment

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Although McElvaine acknowledges these rationales and motivations, particularly Johnson’s fear of looking politically weak, he places far too much stress on Johnson’s “manly” ego to explain America’s embroilment in Vietnam.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

The Russian public is as averse to embroilment in foreign wars as any public anywhere.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2016

Park Slope, Brooklyn, continues its embroilment over a new bike lane along Prospect Park West that is now the subject of a suit against the Transportation Department.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2011

This—Gawker Media’s surreal embroilment in the Gamergate sweepstakes—was hardly an editorial retraction, because there was nothing much to retract, aside from a bad tweet.

From Newsweek

Now, the means of warlike enterprise, as well as of unadvised embroilment, is always in the last analysis the patriotic spirit of the nation.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein