tangle
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When they visited him, they found him under a tangle of tubes, with guards stationed outside his hospital room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
For years I’ve had deli containers of the gorgeous, sticky umami tangle rotating in and out of my refrigerator.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Early Portuguese colonizers described those forests as forming a dense tangle, or "maranhão."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
It warned Russia not to tangle with the British Lion and expressed imperial Britain’s self-confidence at the height of its power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
He pressed his face into the ground, trying not to let the rope tangle as he crept.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
He discusses his childhood tangles with bullies, his ordeals in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Amyloid beta plaques and tau tangles are among the best known biological features of Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Two days remain in one of the greatest tangles in bass fishing history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
Picking up her net, Meera shook out the last tangles and began arranging it in loose folds.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
It was a tangled trust tree that needed lots of water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Big SaaS companies are firmly entrenched within customers’ IT stacks, frequently through tangled connections with software from rival providers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
This fork in the road looms but so, let’s admit, does the possibility of society becoming tangled up in legally paralyzing questions of machine sentience, pushed by certain avid humans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
A tangled web of masterfully timed sound effects has unintentionally become the heartbeat of “Stamptown” .
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Everything in the world should have a destiny. And come together and get all intertwined and tangled with our own destinies.”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
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
"Remy hair has aligned cuticles, hair flows uniformly in one direction, which leads to less tangling and a silkier texture. This is high-value hair," says George Cherion, the company's chief executive.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025
Strands of her hair caught in his fingers, tangling them up.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Vocabulary lists containing tangle
"Of Mice and Men"
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