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entangle

[en-tang-guhl] / ɛnˈtæŋ gəl /


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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

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

Silicon vacancy center-based network nodes can catch, store and entangle bits of quantum information while correcting for signal loss.

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

So I began to entangle my Waking Life within the Dreaming Life.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2024

I disentangle my finger so that I can entangle all the others until our palms are pressed against each other.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Even if the property still stands, there is the possibility that it has been owned by multiple Cuban households over the decades, a long chain of custody that entangles original ownership.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 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

It has put banks on high alert, though their efforts to catch the fraud also routinely entangles innocent customers, causing institutions to suddenly freeze or shut down customer accounts in the process.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2023

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

"But listen to this," and Agamemnon continued: "Impediment is something that entangles the feet; obstacle something that stands in the way; obstruction, something that blocks up the passage; hinderance, something that holds back."

From The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

Season 2 of the Peabody Award-winning series about two hockey rivals entangled in a heated romance is still months away from premiering.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 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

At the school, including during my entangled session on the river, we used ribbon instead of flies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

"The hardest part was getting out," recalled Gil, whose legs had been entangled in a chair.

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

She had caught Carl, caught him and entangled him in her soft tone.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

The other $0.9 trillion is the Treasury’s General Account, where the Treasury parks cash awaiting disbursement—an entangling service the Fed only began providing in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 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

The Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston.

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

The story of how a handful of 21st century “forty-niners” wound up searching for gold on a singed landscape studded with Joshua trees arcs back nearly 100 years, entangling an eclectic cast of characters.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2023

Not far away, Leader tentatively lifted one foot and found it free of the entangling vine.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry




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