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[en-tang-guhl] / ɛnˈtæŋ gəl /


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It’s written in a broad way that could entangle Congress in other aspects of city governance, which probably isn’t a good use of lawmakers’ time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

"I was talking with other students who believe this technology can be used in swarm robotics -- where small robots can entangle, do a task and then disentangle when they are done," said Pezeshki.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

By cooling and manipulating these atoms, scientists can entangle them and perform highly precise computations.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

“The net is designed to entangle itself on any of the rotating objects in the rear of the car,” Santistevan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

I disentangle my finger so that I can entangle all the others until our palms are pressed against each other.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

It nestles and entangles itself in for the long haul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Those numbers, however, don't amount to much in the grand scheme, given the rate at which Louisiana "incarcerates and prosecutes and entangles people in the criminal legal system left and right every day," Romero said.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024

It has put banks on high alert, though their efforts to catch the fraud also routinely entangles innocent customers, causing institutions to suddenly freeze or shut down customer accounts in the process.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2023

This chaotic set of instructions entangles all the qubits into one big, messy state.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 15, 2021

He captures the gay-hearted birds; he entangles adroitly Creatures that live on the land and the brood of the ocean, Spreading his well-woven nets.

From Our Day In the Light of Prophecy by William Ambrose Spicer

AI-related debt is on track to exceed $800 billion this year, and the companies fueling the boom are increasingly entangled through loans, investments and financial guarantees.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

As the New York Times revealed last month, U.S. intelligence agencies believe Huang became romantically entangled with a woman recruited by China’s top spy agency.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

Vivant is about a Japanese salaryman who finds himself entangled in an international web of crime and espionage.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s Netflix film carefully attends to the story of two couples of disparate classes who become increasingly entangled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Soon they are bent almost double to avoid getting entangled in the thick canopy of branches overhead.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The other $0.9 trillion is the Treasury’s General Account, where the Treasury parks cash awaiting disbursement—an entangling service the Fed only began providing in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Washington's warning about the dangers of entangling alliances was followed for 150 years.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

More consolidation – and more influential corporate giants – risks more deeply entangling the interests of profit-driven companies in America’s food system.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024

In the new paper, the team reports near-flawless performance of its two-qubit entangling gates with extremely low error rates.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023

It offers views of the sea to the west; the cliffs below, all strung with entangling wire; and directly across the water, a half mile away, the burning city of Saint-Malo.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr


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