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
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
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
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
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
The concentrated sunlight can then be directed onto the tiny nonlinear crystal responsible for producing the entangled photons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The reality is that crypto is more entangled with the traditional banking system than it cares to admit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Archer’s main competitor in the air taxi space is Joby, a startup based in Santa Cruz that has been entangled in a bitter legal battle with Archer for more than a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Hernandez’s family in Lake Elsinore reported her missing multiple times after she became entangled with Burke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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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Airstrikes have long been a go-to way to project military power for U.S. administrations that want to minimize the risk of American casualties and avoid entangling ground wars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 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
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
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
Long streamers of ebony fabric flowed from the spectral woman, entangling nearby fairies.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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