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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

“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

Mulino has insisted the canal's neutrality is intact and has urged Washington not to entangle Panama in its rivalry with Beijing.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Around fifteen years ago, he and his collaborators were among the first to entangle the spins of extremely cold atoms.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 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

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

A series of gates entangles the helpers with the original qubits, which effectively transfers noise from the system to the helpers.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 19, 2022

I cannot get to my work in this paper, somehow; the web of these old enigmas entangles me again and again.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin

No one from the department has reached out to check on him since the scandal broke; he suspects it’s because people are worried about getting entangled in his criminal or civil cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Despite the obvious ways this arrangement entangled the central bank with the Treasury, the Fed retained enough independence to raise policy rates after inflation took hold in 2021 and 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

It said there was a need to define the "boundaries of business interactions through institutional measures, cutting off the grey areas where power becomes entangled with social obligations".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

The concentrated sunlight can then be directed onto the tiny nonlinear crystal responsible for producing the entangled photons.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

“And there shall be no more secrets between us. When you are better, I’d like to hear how you got entangled with Elena.”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

The team's chief innovation is configuring their "neutral atom array" to be able to dynamically change its layout by moving and connecting atoms -- this is called "entangling" in physics parlance -- mid-computation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 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