enmesh
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In some of the book’s finest moments, Sheff explores her creative emergence, particularly her brash efforts to enmesh herself with Fluxus, the international art movement that celebrated the act of performance for performance’s sake.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
I’ve never really made a concerted effort to enmesh myself in queer nightlife, but now I feel compelled to do it because I want to support those businesses, and community feels more important than ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
Not all bills before the committee Monday sought to enmesh religion with education.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
That in turn would enmesh Israel in the unwanted drudgery of day-to-day governance, an outcome Israel wanted to avoid, he said.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2021
A couple of sheets would also not be amiss—we will enmesh the enemy!”
From Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Writing to our senses as well as the characters enmeshes the viewers in Jimmy’s world, but Odenkirk’s pathos-soaked scoundrel makes the show breathe and kick.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2017
But what happens when it becomes harder and harder to tell the two apart -- where every attempt at definition just enmeshes us further?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2016
The Red Mass has generated criticism over the decades, in part for the extent to which it enmeshes the high court with church affairs, and some members of the Supreme Court also have their qualms.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2015
These contrasting paint textures give the works a firm foothold in reality and reward up-close viewing, which enmeshes the eye in both their spatial paradoxes and everyday moods.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012
The formula works when the public fiction enmeshes itself with a private urgency.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
When Joe Biden was president, the relationship was very enmeshed, right?
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
As long as their parent is cognitively sharp and not enmeshed in a romance scam, the size and scope of an inheritance is entirely up to the parent.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
He is enmeshed in the consequences of the gross blunder he made by going to war assuming an easy victory.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Financial Times said Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is working on a plan to take over Jefferies, which is enmeshed in the First Brands bankruptcy.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
I knew that Burt had been a close associate of Hale’s who had been enmeshed in the systematic exploitation of the Osage.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Your partner's actions push that one-to-one through a third person, erasing boundaries and enmeshing you all.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2021
For the actors, encountering and enmeshing with the community was an eye-opening experience.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2021
An inchoate show about an inchoate time makes a kind of sense, an enmeshing of content and form.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2021
That's where things really fall apart in Richard D'Ovidio's script: Aside from the moral madness of enmeshing a minor in such proceedings, the after-hours gallery infiltration proves a rote, tension-free affair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2015
Perhaps it was her father's naive stratagems for the enmeshing of a wealthy husband that had produced in her at last a morbid antipathy to the idea of playing beggar-maid to any man's King Cophetua.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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