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entangle

[en-tang-guhl] / ɛnˈtæŋ gəl /


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In a prototype device, the researchers used a shared source of correlated light particles to entangle two separated qubits, experimentally realizing an idea that had remained theoretical for more than two decades.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

The way the central couple navigates the twists, turns, roadblocks and unforced errors that entangle their budding relationship is the beating heart of these films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

By cooling and manipulating these atoms, scientists can entangle them and perform highly precise computations.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

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

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

A mass of knotted rope entangles like tentacles or whirs when swung by a spinning dancer.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Hurried on by the headlong impetuosity of his temper, he entangles himself in these perplexities; and thinks to penetrate them, not by skill and patience, but by open force.

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle

Mr Mullins became entangled in the suspension of the 4×4 as Richardson drove on, the court heard.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Vivant is about a Japanese salaryman who finds himself entangled in an international web of crime and espionage.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s Netflix film carefully attends to the story of two couples of disparate classes who become increasingly entangled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Biologists are hoping to save a humpback whale last seen entangled in a fishing net off the coast of San Pedro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

The tree whose leaf umbrellas had curled around, under and over her fire escape had been cut down because the housewives complained that wash on the lines got entangled in its branches.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

One term for the scams is pig butchering, because the scammers “fatten up” their targets by entangling them in romantic relationships online and dangling bogus financial schemes, then “butcher” them by disappearing with their money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

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

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

He rose quickly as though to cast off some entangling danger.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck


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