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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

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

When that relationship entangles him with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, it quickly raises questions of national security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 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

Tell Wit how much it wrangles In tickle points of niceness— Tell Wisdom she entangles Herself in over-wiseness; And when they do reply, Straight give them both the lie.

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall

As the New York Times revealed last month, U.S. intelligence agencies believe Huang became romantically entangled with a woman recruited by China’s top spy agency.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

Vivant is about a Japanese salaryman who finds himself entangled in an international web of crime and espionage.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s Netflix film carefully attends to the story of two couples of disparate classes who become increasingly entangled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

This is the second entangled whale the tour operator has witnessed since August, the company said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Somehow her silk had entangled Annabeth’s leg and dragged her over the side of the pit, with Percy in tow.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

If the hair is longer than 2 inches, bury it in the soil to avoid entangling birds’ feet, she recommends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

Long streamers of ebony fabric flowed from the spectral woman, entangling nearby fairies.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull