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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

Over an hour into a high-speed chase with the suspect, the sheriff’s department botched the deployment of a “grappler” net system intended to entangle the back wheels of the car to slow it down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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

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

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

It manacles the hand, and entangles the feet that are active only to good.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

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

Mr Mullins became entangled in the suspension of the 4×4 as Richardson drove on, the court heard.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 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

Biologists are hoping to save a humpback whale last seen entangled in a fishing net off the coast of San Pedro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Just when it seemed it would pop free, thorny vines shot out of the ground and entangled it further.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

The team has not yet fully optimized their electron qubit and will continue to work on extending the coherence time even further as well as entangling two or more qubits.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 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

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