entangle
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The way the central couple navigates the twists, turns, roadblocks and unforced errors that entangle their budding relationship is the beating heart of these films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
Mulino has insisted the canal's neutrality is intact and has urged Washington not to entangle Panama in its rivalry with Beijing.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 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
Surely Forest would not entangle the poor woman yet.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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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
A mass of knotted rope entangles like tentacles or whirs when swung by a spinning dancer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Such informal co-branding entangles our initiatives in Disney’s morally messy past and present.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 23, 2021
Tell wit, how much it wrangles In tickle points of nicenesse; Tell wisedome, she entangles Herselfe in over-wisenesse: And if they do reply, Straight give them both the lye.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
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
This crime thriller on Netflix, based on Alex North’s novel, sees the stars entangled in a story of murder, familial conflict, and procedural obstacles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Hochman holds incredible power over the thousands of lives entangled in the matters his office handles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
To his utter amazement there was a human entangled in the banisters.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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Washington's warning about the dangers of entangling alliances was followed for 150 years.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
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 Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
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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