entangle
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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
Mulino has insisted the canal's neutrality is intact and has urged Washington not to entangle Panama in its rivalry with Beijing.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
“Unguided chatbot responses, for example, cannot be neatly constrained. Attempts to do so will either be insufficient or entangle developers in a morass of third-rail social issues.”
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025
Discarded fishing nets, lines, and other plastic debris can entangle and trap marine animals, leading to injury, drowning, or suffocation.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2023
Surely Forest would not entangle the poor woman yet.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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