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[en-mesh] / ɛnˈmɛʃ /


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In some of the book’s finest moments, Sheff explores her creative emergence, particularly her brash efforts to enmesh herself with Fluxus, the international art movement that celebrated the act of performance for performance’s sake.

From Salon Mar. 28, 2025

I’ve never really made a concerted effort to enmesh myself in queer nightlife, but now I feel compelled to do it because I want to support those businesses, and community feels more important than ever.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2025

Not all bills before the committee Monday sought to enmesh religion with education.

From Seattle Times Feb. 5, 2024

That in turn would enmesh Israel in the unwanted drudgery of day-to-day governance, an outcome Israel wanted to avoid, he said.

From New York Times May 21, 2021

The fishermen he knew to be of predatory habits, and the promise of gold would enmesh them.

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath

But cashing a check enmeshes you more closely with a charity.

From New York Times Dec. 10, 2020

Writing to our senses as well as the characters enmeshes the viewers in Jimmy’s world, but Odenkirk’s pathos-soaked scoundrel makes the show breathe and kick.

From Salon Apr. 10, 2017

But what happens when it becomes harder and harder to tell the two apart -- where every attempt at definition just enmeshes us further?

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2016

The Red Mass has generated criticism over the decades, in part for the extent to which it enmeshes the high court with church affairs, and some members of the Supreme Court also have their qualms.

From Slate Oct. 5, 2015

And with the less attractive strands the shifting harness of place and circumstance enmeshes a thread of Love's gold.

From A Man of Two Countries by Colista M. Dowling

All would go on to be major names and have their histories enmeshed with that of Pop, though only Dine, Lichtenstein and Warhol are included here.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

I get the sense it’s not that enmeshed now.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

As long as their parent is cognitively sharp and not enmeshed in a romance scam, the size and scope of an inheritance is entirely up to the parent.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

After all, digitization means that tech is now enmeshed with the rule of law, trade, and economics.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

I wept as much for the glory of two voices so perfectly enmeshed as for the tragedy of the song.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

There come suggestions of shutting the world out, enmeshing the listener in the plush luxury of Rachmaninoff-like harmonies.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2022

Your partner's actions push that one-to-one through a third person, erasing boundaries and enmeshing you all.

From Washington Post Dec. 12, 2021

For the actors, encountering and enmeshing with the community was an eye-opening experience.

From Seattle Times Mar. 30, 2021

We’re all better off for enmeshing ourselves with what we are not, and that may best be done in love, but fiction works, too.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2014

He would fall from grace with a thud, enmeshing himself in a thousand pieces at his distant relative's feet.

From The Land of Look Behind by Paul Cameron Brown




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