tangle
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Instead, her autobiography hides the real Spark in a tangle of commonplaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Learning from troops in Ukraine, Israeli forces have begun covering their positions with netting to entrap and tangle the tiny drones.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Maybe it’s a drizzle of special vinegar, a pat of cultured butter softening into gloss or a tangle of pickled vegetables with just enough bite.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
The decision also drops at a moment when more than a dozen other states are weighing their own mask laws — laws that could create a tangle of dueling precedents across the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Her tangle of blonde curls shakes with laughter.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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But consent decrees are legally and politically complicated, and the treatment of migrant children further tangles the situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
To administer genetic medicines against the tau protein tangles that are Alzheimer’s’ other main pathology, doctors must inject them directly into the cerebrospinal fluid.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
For years, most Alzheimer's research has focused on the buildup of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
Hostilities in the Middle East have created logistical tangles in the region, closing airspace and forcing vessels to seek shelter or reroute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
He, too, was a wild child, dirty and ragged, his hair a long mass of tangles.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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His far stranger movie after that, 2019’s “Under the Silver Lake,” was a genre-defying Los Angeles comic-noir with Andrew Garfield as a hipster tangled up in a bizarre cult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
One excellent vegetable can be cooked down with butter and tangled through pasta.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
No matter the sport, professional athletes always lead tangled tax lives.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Not far away, I had tangled a dozen feet of line in the boughs of a hemlock tree—for the third time that morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
“Well, first of all, let me congratulate you all on the superb plot twists! I’ll try to add mine to the mix without getting them hopelessly tangled up.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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They were also playing without their best receiver, DK Metcalf, who’d received a two-game suspension for tangling with a fan in Detroit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
The administration was not interested in tangling with powerful trends that had been going on for decades.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
Crockett would know: He’s been tangling with the industry in some form or fashion since one insider saw him as a would-be pop star more than a decade ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025
"Remy hair has aligned cuticles, hair flows uniformly in one direction, which leads to less tangling and a silkier texture. This is high-value hair," says George Cherion, the company's chief executive.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025
I reached for Mary Alice to keep her from tangling in her skirts and pitching off the float.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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"Of Mice and Men"
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