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enmesh

[en-mesh] / ɛnˈmɛʃ /


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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

Not all bills before the committee Monday sought to enmesh religion with education.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

Although her adventures eventually strain credulity, through her script — inspired by real events — Mihai manages to completely enmesh the viewer in a story that combines social drama with thriller, espionage and vigilante elements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

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

All day I have waited for this secret meeting, pondered On all that I should say to her, how best I might enmesh Marina's haughty mind, Calling her queen of Moscow.

From Boris Godunov: a drama in verse by Alfred Hayes

But cashing a check enmeshes you more closely with a charity.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2020

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

Our coldest midwinter nights are still and the tangle of the trees enmeshes a protecting warmth that the outside cold cannot penetrate altogether.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard

Still, it comes with the usual trade-offs: a closed ecosystem that requires your whole household to be completely enmeshed in Apple’s universe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Heder didn’t want to disrupt the schooling of her two young children, ages 10 and 12, and has become too enmeshed in the area to want to leave it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

These two countries are longtime military and strategic allies, with deeply enmeshed economies and several thousand miles of minimally guarded border.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

When Joe Biden was president, the relationship was very enmeshed, right?

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

If Ash had seen him, she might have thought that he was a fairy, for all around him the Wood seemed enmeshed in a web of illusion.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

Late today she even succeeded in enmeshing the scorpion’s deadly stinger, attached to his lashing tall.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2018

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

Maria saw the stars stretching their great network downward enmeshing the Mississippi.

From Old Kaskaskia by Mary Hartwell Catherwood


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