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He described the tangle of lawyers, judges, and motions involved as a "procedural morass" with no simple answers.

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Today, her transplant is tied up in a tangle of bureaucracy, her fate bound to a home she can’t live in and an address she can’t leave.

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He finds himself deeply connecting with these people, young and old, and learning from them, while becoming tangled in their lives.

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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave,” Alex says in response to the prosecutor questioning why he lied about his whereabouts on the night of the murders.

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They ended up sprawled on the bakehouse floor, a tragic tangle of limbs.

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