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entangle

[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

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

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

To create high-performance quantum networks, researchers must entangle atoms and maintain that entanglement as signals travel through fiber cables.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025

Nets along the east coast also routinely entangle humpback whales on their annual migration to and from the tropics.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

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

Even if the property still stands, there is the possibility that it has been owned by multiple Cuban households over the decades, a long chain of custody that entangles original ownership.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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

A mass of knotted rope entangles like tentacles or whirs when swung by a spinning dancer.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

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

From Scientific American ● Jul. 15, 2021

Be on your guard against everything that entangles you in self.

From Letters of Madam Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

In the worst case she has seen, one of her clients was entangled in what appeared to be a romance scam.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

"This shows just how entangled our medicines are with the non-human world," Dr Freymann told BBC News.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Tourtsakis explained it to me like this: The process relied on the crystals in the room, which were quantum entangled with particles out in space.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Feldman hopes the exhibition, which spans fine-line drawings of entangled lovers and radiant topographical tapestries, will complicate that familiar account.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

The two of them got so entangled that Hornet and Prosper needed Mosca’s help to separate them.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

One term for the scams is pig butchering, because the scammers “fatten up” their targets by entangling them in romantic relationships online and dangling bogus financial schemes, then “butcher” them by disappearing with their money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

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

The team's chief innovation is configuring their "neutral atom array" to be able to dynamically change its layout by moving and connecting atoms -- this is called "entangling" in physics parlance -- mid-computation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023

The story of how a handful of 21st century “forty-niners” wound up searching for gold on a singed landscape studded with Joshua trees arcs back nearly 100 years, entangling an eclectic cast of characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

Beneath the entangling personal motives, the debate is one of the oldest in the Western philosophical tradition, between nomos and physis.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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