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
It's designed to trap and entangle Russian drones and stop them hitting the vehicles beneath.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 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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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
But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
A mass of knotted rope entangles like tentacles or whirs when swung by a spinning dancer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
It required no great perception to see that Sabina was not the type that entangles men.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
The development has been entangled in legal reviews but a decision is expected soon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Continuous-variable entangled states can be produced efficiently and are therefore relatively accessible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Becoming entangled with one’s audience meant that followers’ reactions – whether positive or negative – often started to feel like a burden.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
It said there was a need to define the "boundaries of business interactions through institutional measures, cutting off the grey areas where power becomes entangled with social obligations".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Jonathan attempted to follow, only to become entangled in the rope.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
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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
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
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
In the morning we would rise shivering and rubbing arms, wordlessly repeat our small chores, fill and hoist our packs, and venture into the great entangling forest again.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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