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
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
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
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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
As the wind from the Wolf-Rayet collides with and entangles the wind of the massive companion, the two fight each other to a standstill.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023
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
Then it spins a web of silk upon the bark of the twig and entangles the hooked claws of its hind legs in the silken web.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed
It’s not like furniture or jewelry or cars; it comes entangled with thin skins, volatile tempers, melodrama galore—our whole business model is built on emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
After one electron interacts with the trapped ion, another electron can pass through and become entangled with the quantum computer as well.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 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
Hochman holds incredible power over the thousands of lives entangled in the matters his office handles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Yet they should not go too far up that stream, nor risk becoming entangled in the Forest of Fangorn.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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
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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