tangle
Example Sentences
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Regional and global powers alike are using it to pursue their own interests, producing a tangle of shifting alliances.
It has balanced the budget, improved government aid to the poor by removing political middlemen, and cut a tangle of red tape that was strangling business.
It turns out that each of them has some tangled history with the deceased clergyman.
He described the tangle of lawyers, judges, and motions involved as a "procedural morass" with no simple answers.
From BBC
Today, her transplant is tied up in a tangle of bureaucracy, her fate bound to a home she can’t live in and an address she can’t leave.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
