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tangle

[tang-guhl] / ˈtæŋ gəl /




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His comments, in his interview with me, followed by no fewer than two attempts to backtrack 24 hours later, amount to perhaps his biggest self inflicted tangle since he arrived in Downing Street in July.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

For years I’ve had deli containers of the gorgeous, sticky umami tangle rotating in and out of my refrigerator.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Early Portuguese colonizers described those forests as forming a dense tangle, or "maranhão."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

It warned Russia not to tangle with the British Lion and expressed imperial Britain’s self-confidence at the height of its power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

From our hiding spot, I could see out through the tangle of statue legs to the spot where we’d just been sitting.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

He shrugged off the Shuffle video and McMahon’s repeated tangles with NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle over the league’s dress code.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Yet the amount of tau tangles in the brain did not change.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

From his “Airwatch” pilot seat, Captain Max guided Angelenos through their traffic tangles, and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Two days remain in one of the greatest tangles in bass fishing history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

I felt it now, all inside of me, as if just saying my name out loud had unleashed a force and it was wrapping around the tangles, ready to rip them apart.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

It was a tangled trust tree that needed lots of water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

A New York judge on Wednesday sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in prison, marking the latest chapter in the tangled legal saga of the disgraced Hollywood mogul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Scientists say the impacts of cleaner air, natural variations and the effects of warming itself are all tangled together.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Record labels, music publishers and tech startups are already tangled in lawsuits over AI platforms that allow at-home novices to create songs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Still I did not learn and I continued to challenge them, often causing the team to get tangled.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

There’s a school of thought that, in tangling with adversaries, it’s sometimes wise to seem unpredictable—to tip them off balance.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025

Williams started opening residential facilities in the San Fernando Valley to care for patients in the 1980s, at times tangling with Medi-Cal officials who raised concerns about regulatory requirements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024

City earlier lost midfielder Rodri to injury 21 minutes into the game when he appeared to twist his knee while tangling with Arsenal's Thomas Partey.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024

It was the first sign of civilization they’d seen since tangling with Momma Bear, and they excitedly picked up their pace.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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