tangle
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He duelled with O'Rourke, eventually getting into a tangle against a short ball and being given caught behind on review.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
In between, Brook got into a tangle against an O'Rourke full ball and was out for nought.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Late last week, it appeared likely that Starmer might survive in the medium term, not least because no plausible challenger seemed ready to tangle with Labour’s complicated rules for ousting a party leader.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
She writes from a place that’s a tangle of personal struggle, accountability and owning the pain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
A tangle of golden-brown snakes writhed among one another, twisting and coiling in an indistinguishable mass.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
The tests, from manufacturers Fujirebio Diagnostics and Roche Holding, were cleared last year and look for different versions of tau, a protein that forms into tangles in the brain and can lead to memory loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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
"Alzheimer's work has long centered on plaques and tangles," says Baban.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
My hair hung below my hips in an unwashed mass of tangles, matted with twigs and leaves and mud.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
“High Noon” begins with an atmospheric whistle on loan from a Sergio Leone film, and Georgia rapper Gunna trades verses with Shaboozey over a coiled trap beat tangled with slide guitar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
As a backhoe cleared broken pieces of heavy walls, the siblings picked tirelessly through the mountain of tangled rubble.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
He curled spikily around her neck and they towed the wagon across the grassland, up to the tangled vines and ferns of the rain forest.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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
"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
For example, he once jumped onto the roof of a car to avoid tangling with a large mastiff mix that had hopped over a waist-high fence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
He released his grip and backed away, his feet tangling in the wreckage of the broken barstool.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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"Of Mice and Men"
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