entangle
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Previous attempts to entangle distant qubits have generally followed one of two strategies.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
“The net is designed to entangle itself on any of the rotating objects in the rear of the car,” Santistevan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 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
Surely Forest would not entangle the poor woman yet.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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Even if the property still stands, there is the possibility that it has been owned by multiple Cuban households over the decades, a long chain of custody that entangles original ownership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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
Such informal co-branding entangles our initiatives in Disney’s morally messy past and present.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 23, 2021
Literally, an impediment is that which entangles the feet; hence, that which hinders or interferes.
From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins
South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s Netflix film carefully attends to the story of two couples of disparate classes who become increasingly entangled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The Jackdaw project has been entangled in legal disputes and awaiting final government approval for some time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Within the team's simulated lattice gauge theory, this entangled state represented magnetic flux passing through the center of the loop.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Biologists are hoping to save a humpback whale last seen entangled in a fishing net off the coast of San Pedro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
She slit the heel of a black embroidered slipper and pulled out the cotton—which was entangled with jewels.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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The other $0.9 trillion is the Treasury’s General Account, where the Treasury parks cash awaiting disbursement—an entangling service the Fed only began providing in 2008.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
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
The Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
The story of how a handful of 21st century “forty-niners” wound up searching for gold on a singed landscape studded with Joshua trees arcs back nearly 100 years, entangling an eclectic cast of characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
On the left flank, Grover and his nature spirits were regrouping, entangling the enemies with bushes and weeds.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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