embroil
Example Sentences
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Those investments, experts say, help prevent regional conflict and war that may embroil the U.S.
From Salon • May 29, 2025
Desperate not to embroil a small, vulnerable immigrant community in an intense national controversy, they tried to avoid the issue.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025
The tail-docking blowup is just the latest controversy to embroil the company.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023
King Charles is more famous than many heads of state, but he can also stay above the party politics that can embroil a president like Emmanuel Macron.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2023
Canada may any day embroil England with the United States; and so may the West Indies, and the Nebraskan and Nicaraguan questions; and so may Newfoundland with France, and East or West Africa with Germany.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.