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embroil

[em-broil] / ɛmˈbrɔɪl /


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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

"We need to avoid a major conflict that will embroil the United States or indeed the countries in the region," presidential adviser Anwar Gargash told the US-based Arab Gulf States Institute last Thursday.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021

As a like conduct might embroil you with your hosts, you will change your abode from time to time.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'




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