tangle

When they visited him, they found him under a tangle of tubes, with guards stationed outside his hospital room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 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

Back then, the song began with a tangle of electric bass, guitar and vibraphone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Aunt Kitty just blinked, letting my complaints tangle around me like a sticky cobweb.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

He discusses his childhood tangles with bullies, his ordeals in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

Plaques are abnormal deposits of a protein called amyloid beta that accumulate between brain cells, while tangles are twisted forms of the tau protein that develop inside neurons.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

Aphrodites children were running around straightening everybody’s armor and offering to comb the tangles out of our horsehair plumes.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

She could give Tony uncomplicated affection and attention at a time when nearly every interaction between him and me had become tangled with ever-increasing confusion and fear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Tammy Nuccio was struck by his arrogance when she tangled with him as head of the town council in Tolland, outside Hartford.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Big SaaS companies are firmly entrenched within customers’ IT stacks, frequently through tangled connections with software from rival providers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

Camilla felt something, but her gaze was all tangled with Lord Peter’s.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

The moves also signaled to the U.S. that it was tangling not just with Denmark—a country of roughly six million people—but allies from across NATO’s 32 members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

The administration was not interested in tangling with powerful trends that had been going on for decades.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

It’s the risk of tangling their expectations and desires, and the fear that their hunger to stay together might get in the way of their separate futures.

From Salon ● May 21, 2025

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

Strands of her hair caught in his fingers, tangling them up.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee