tangle
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As Gát sees it, today’s discussion has become a tangle of separate questions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
As the company grew, it navigated and exploited the 20th century’s tangle of transport regulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The critics tangle with Taylor Swift: The singer’s recent singles, including “Patient Zero,” have not, to put it mildly, been critical darlings, but they are holding steady on the charts.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
She wrestled it into the tangle of fig roots.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Some carriages were lying on their side in tangles of metal debris at the bottom of an embankment, while dozens of emergency services vehicles were racing to and from the site.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
These deposits interfere with communication between neurons, contribute to the formation of tau tangles inside cells, and ultimately lead to neuronal death.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
As the tangles accumulate, nearby neurons begin to die.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
He discusses his childhood tangles with bullies, his ordeals in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The whole thing tangles my brain in knots.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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The lighting is gauzy and romantic, like the Instagram filter I use to blur out my eye bags, and Marianne’s hair, long and tangled, cascades behind her, her radiant skin nearly glowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Marine experts and firefighters have together helped to free a tangled dolphin spotted out of its depth in a Suffolk river.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
It was a tangled trust tree that needed lots of water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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
His thoughts got so tangled that his mind gave up trying to revise his memory of seeing Angela vanish.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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
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
Still, that hasn’t stopped their subreddit and user base—which is smaller than either r/PublicFreakout’s or r/FreeLuigi’s—from tangling with the new reality.
From Slate ● 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
Grace twisted the charms around and around, tangling the chain around her neck.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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"Of Mice and Men"
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