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entangle

[en-tang-guhl] / ɛnˈtæŋ gəl /


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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

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

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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