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embroilment



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What takes up the book’s pages instead is Bill’s embroilment in another matter of questionable scaffolding: construction-related fraud in the condo board of the high-rise where Bill’s father, Melsor, lives.

From Washington Post Feb. 23, 2018

The Russian public is as averse to embroilment in foreign wars as any public anywhere.

From The Guardian Sep. 11, 2016

Park Slope, Brooklyn, continues its embroilment over a new bike lane along Prospect Park West that is now the subject of a suit against the Transportation Department.

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2011

This—Gawker Media’s surreal embroilment in the Gamergate sweepstakes—was hardly an editorial retraction, because there was nothing much to retract, aside from a bad tweet.

From Newsweek

He saw clearly enough the embroilment into which Lionel had landed himself; but he could not see so clearly how he was to get out of it.

From Prince Fortunatus by Black, William




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