tangled

Example Sentences

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Ultimately, “Against the Dying of the Light” succeeds as a whole because it’s so layered, offering aesthetic beauty and room-filling atmosphere on the surface and tangled concepts to wrestle with the deeper you go.

From The Wall Street Journal

In space, technical and geopolitical questions can become tangled.

From The Wall Street Journal

And I knew instantly that whatever he meant was tangled and that my warmth might feel like comfort to him, but also, unconsciously, like danger.

From Los Angeles Times

"They did so through a tangled web of lies, obfuscation, and concealment."

From Barron's

Liaw and his affiliates engaged in “a tangled web of lies, obfuscation and concealment — all to drive sales and generate revenues in violation of U.S. law,” federal prosecutors said in a press release.

From MarketWatch