tangle

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

"It's very important that the hundred rowers coordinate because the oars are quite long and they will tangle with each other," Trammell Hudson stressed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Ekon watched the writhing bodies of six black mambas tangle in their basket, each one of their eyes locked on him in waiting.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Unnecessary tangles with defenders are so often a hallmark of Delap's do-or-die approach, even when playing his best football.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

Every neuron contains Tau, but in Alzheimer's disease the protein begins clumping into large, sticky tangles that interfere with the cell's internal transport system before eventually killing the neuron.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026

Drugmakers are also developing medications that target tau tangles in the brain so patients may have more options in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Sunflowers began to sprout between the beds in savage green tangles.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

In Washington, park officials notified the public of a rabid bat three days after the animal swept down and became tangled in a woman’s hair on Aug. 9.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

This fork in the road looms but so, let’s admit, does the possibility of society becoming tangled up in legally paralyzing questions of machine sentience, pushed by certain avid humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The second is the "tangled magnetic field lines" in the Sun's atmosphere that constantly snap and then reconnect.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

One excellent vegetable can be cooked down with butter and tangled through pasta.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

It had something to do with the muscles, leaders, and things like that, being all tangled up.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Ms. Crabapple’s great-grandfather, Samuel Rothbort, was a Russian-born Bundist who, after tangling with local thugs, immigrated to the U.S. and became a painter and chicken farmer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

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

Why, with a car like that, he would no longer have to hang onto his tail to keep it from tangling in the spokes.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary