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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

Nets along the east coast also routinely entangle humpback whales on their annual migration to and from the tropics.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

“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

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

It nestles and entangles itself in for the long haul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 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

Such informal co-branding entangles our initiatives in Disney’s morally messy past and present.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 23, 2021

Then he entangles for a moment the critic and poet together.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

Hernandez’s family in Lake Elsinore reported her missing multiple times after she became entangled with Burke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Schiller delves, inevitably, into the history of AARP, an organization that even in its earliest days was entangled with the health insurance industry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Though it gets entangled in the topic of retirement, it isn’t the same question.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

Dora was having trouble with her income tax, for she was entangled in that curious enigma which said the business was illegal and then taxed her for it.

From "Cannery Row" 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

Washington's warning about the dangers of entangling alliances was followed for 150 years.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 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 team has not yet fully optimized their electron qubit and will continue to work on extending the coherence time even further as well as entangling two or more qubits.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

It offers views of the sea to the west; the cliffs below, all strung with entangling wire; and directly across the water, a half mile away, the burning city of Saint-Malo.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr