entangle
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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
Mulino has insisted the canal's neutrality is intact and has urged Washington not to entangle Panama in its rivalry with Beijing.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Silicon vacancy center-based network nodes can catch, store and entangle bits of quantum information while correcting for signal loss.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
So I began to entangle my Waking Life within the Dreaming Life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Surely Forest would not entangle the poor woman yet.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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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
It has put banks on high alert, though their efforts to catch the fraud also routinely entangles innocent customers, causing institutions to suddenly freeze or shut down customer accounts in the process.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
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
It then entangles its claws in the web to hold itself in place while the skin is cast.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.
Schiller delves, inevitably, into the history of AARP, an organization that even in its earliest days was entangled with the health insurance industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Though it gets entangled in the topic of retirement, it isn’t the same question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
"The hardest part was getting out," recalled Gil, whose legs had been entangled in a chair.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Historians rediscovered what Warren’s “History” could have told them all along: that the U.S. has, since its very beginning, been entangled in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Some were entangled in the plants, leaves growing between the skinny bars.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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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
If the hair is longer than 2 inches, bury it in the soil to avoid entangling birds’ feet, she recommends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
The team's chief innovation is configuring their "neutral atom array" to be able to dynamically change its layout by moving and connecting atoms -- this is called "entangling" in physics parlance -- mid-computation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023
He rose quickly as though to cast off some entangling danger.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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