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embroilment



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Although McElvaine acknowledges these rationales and motivations, particularly Johnson’s fear of looking politically weak, he places far too much stress on Johnson’s “manly” ego to explain America’s embroilment in Vietnam.

From Washington Post Jul. 1, 2022

I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so "in it", you couldn't even call it an art, it's such embroilment.

From The Guardian Jan. 19, 2013

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

The Alien and Sedition Laws were passed in order to suppress agitation tending to produce such embroilment.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White




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