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envelopments

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plural of envelopment

as in entanglements

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Trump successfully tapped into these grievances by promising to scale back international entanglements and bring back factories and manufacturing jobs.

— Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
The kill switch metaphor reduces the infrastructural entanglements of AI to outdated ideas about technology.

— Trent Wintermeier, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026

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With roads around the hospital unsafe, transferring patients to other facilities was not an option in the first hours of the attack, while sending ambulances into the field risked exposing them to Hamas ambushes.

— Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Social Media Capture The underlying tactic is not new, with both Russian and Ukrainian forces having previously used armed FPV drones to conduct roadside ambushes.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

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