entangle
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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
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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
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
The unconscious entangles with its connections preferentially either those impressions and ideas of the foreconscious which have been left unnoticed as indifferent, or those that have soon been deprived of this attention through rejection.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
In this established optical process, a pump beam enters a nonlinear crystal, where individual photons can split into pairs that may become quantum entangled.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
About the 10th or 12th time Spidey defeats a gaggle of adversaries by wrapping them up in webs, this series seems entangled in its own predictability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Schiller delves, inevitably, into the history of AARP, an organization that even in its earliest days was entangled with the health insurance industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
When qubits become entangled, their properties remain connected, even when the qubits are separated by large distances.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
“And there shall be no more secrets between us. When you are better, I’d like to hear how you got entangled with Elena.”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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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
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
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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