tangle
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"It's very important that the hundred rowers coordinate because the oars are quite long and they will tangle with each other," Trammell Hudson stressed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Instead, her autobiography hides the real Spark in a tangle of commonplaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
He would be far from the only US president to tangle with the Israeli PM.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Maybe it’s a drizzle of special vinegar, a pat of cultured butter softening into gloss or a tangle of pickled vegetables with just enough bite.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
He strode to his companions, who had taken cover in the tangle of brush.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
Unnecessary tangles with defenders are so often a hallmark of Delap's do-or-die approach, even when playing his best football.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
But consent decrees are legally and politically complicated, and the treatment of migrant children further tangles the situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Drugmakers are also developing medications that target tau tangles in the brain so patients may have more options in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
To administer genetic medicines against the tau protein tangles that are Alzheimer’s’ other main pathology, doctors must inject them directly into the cerebrospinal fluid.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
The sight of him standing there, amid tangles of old flowers, is a peculiar juxtaposition.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
"We saw that in 10 hours after the CME, the tangled field lines were able to go back to their original place, they reconnected and corona's energy was reconfigured," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
His far stranger movie after that, 2019’s “Under the Silver Lake,” was a genre-defying Los Angeles comic-noir with Andrew Garfield as a hipster tangled up in a bizarre cult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
One excellent vegetable can be cooked down with butter and tangled through pasta.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
No matter the sport, professional athletes always lead tangled tax lives.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
I say the word out loud then, and this time it doesn’t get tangled in my throat.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The moves also signaled to the U.S. that it was tangling not just with Denmark—a country of roughly six million people—but allies from across NATO’s 32 members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The administration was not interested in tangling with powerful trends that had been going on for decades.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
It’s the risk of tangling their expectations and desires, and the fear that their hunger to stay together might get in the way of their separate futures.
From Salon ● May 21, 2025
Crockett would know: He’s been tangling with the industry in some form or fashion since one insider saw him as a would-be pop star more than a decade ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025
I reached for Mary Alice to keep her from tangling in her skirts and pitching off the float.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing tangle
"Of Mice and Men"
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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