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[en-mesh] / ɛnˈmɛʃ /


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In some of the book’s finest moments, Sheff explores her creative emergence, particularly her brash efforts to enmesh herself with Fluxus, the international art movement that celebrated the act of performance for performance’s sake.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

Not all bills before the committee Monday sought to enmesh religion with education.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

Although her adventures eventually strain credulity, through her script — inspired by real events — Mihai manages to completely enmesh the viewer in a story that combines social drama with thriller, espionage and vigilante elements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

Emotionally, I am very reluctant to further enmesh our lives with MIL’s.

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2022

From other letters received by Nevins it develops that not one of the men has failed in locating his man and in laying the net which is to enmesh him.

From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Francis A. Adams

Writing to our senses as well as the characters enmeshes the viewers in Jimmy’s world, but Odenkirk’s pathos-soaked scoundrel makes the show breathe and kick.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2017

But what happens when it becomes harder and harder to tell the two apart -- where every attempt at definition just enmeshes us further?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2016

The Red Mass has generated criticism over the decades, in part for the extent to which it enmeshes the high court with church affairs, and some members of the Supreme Court also have their qualms.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2015

These contrasting paint textures give the works a firm foothold in reality and reward up-close viewing, which enmeshes the eye in both their spatial paradoxes and everyday moods.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012

Our coldest midwinter nights are still and the tangle of the trees enmeshes a protecting warmth that the outside cold cannot penetrate altogether.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard

Heder didn’t want to disrupt the schooling of her two young children, ages 10 and 12, and has become too enmeshed in the area to want to leave it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

These two countries are longtime military and strategic allies, with deeply enmeshed economies and several thousand miles of minimally guarded border.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

I get the sense it’s not that enmeshed now.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

As long as their parent is cognitively sharp and not enmeshed in a romance scam, the size and scope of an inheritance is entirely up to the parent.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

She found Poppy sitting on the floor of the shop, enmeshed in a tangle of yellow yarn.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

Your partner's actions push that one-to-one through a third person, erasing boundaries and enmeshing you all.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2021

For the actors, encountering and enmeshing with the community was an eye-opening experience.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2021

It had woven an imprisoning web around its much larger opponent, even to the point of enmeshing the stinger on the scorpion’s tail.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2018

That's where things really fall apart in Richard D'Ovidio's script: Aside from the moral madness of enmeshing a minor in such proceedings, the after-hours gallery infiltration proves a rote, tension-free affair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2015

Lorelei abhorred spiders; the picture of some evil-minded millionaire enmeshing her in a web of intrigue brought a sickening feeling of helplessness and apprehension.

From The Auction Block by Rex Ellingwood Beach




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