Thesaurus results for NOOSES

nooses

noun

plural of noose

as in traps

something that catches and holds the representative was forced to resign after getting caught in a noose of lies and corruption

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Recent Examples of nooses Bags full of nooses had already been found. — Robin Yassin-Kassab, Time, 17 Sep. 2025 Some right-wing lawmakers wore gold nooses to Monday's session. — Matt Bradley, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026 Since the shoulder seams unfasten under pressure, the armholes can't be used as makeshift nooses, either. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 17 Dec. 2025 In the yard, decorations include nooses, hanging bodies, guards in towers and barbed wire fences. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025 The move capped back-and-forth revisions of the Coast Guard policy on swastikas, nooses and other hate symbols that had sparked an uproar. — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025 Tensions between Black and White high school students escalate after nooses were hung from a tree to taunt Black students. — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 11 Feb. 2026 After news broke of the Coast Guard’s plan to downgrade the language on swastikas and nooses, Lunday quickly released a memo to all service personnel that condemned both symbols and said they were not allowed in the workplace. — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2025 For almost a decade, the company headed by Elon Musk has been trying to fend off allegations that the assembly line in Tesla’s Fremont plant was a hostile work environment filled with racist slurs, graffiti and drawings of nooses and swastikas. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026

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Noun

The heat wave is making a bad air-quality situation worse as a high-pressure system traps soot and fine particles close to the ground instead of dispersing them.

— Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
How Often To Clean A Jute Rug The textured weave of a jute rug traps sand, dirt, and dust.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 July 2026

Definition of traps

Noun

This Levoit vacuum just dropped under $200, and its impressive ability to pick up hair without any tangles is a pet owner’s dream.

— Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2026
Tuohy found that only our top overall robovac pick, the Matic, did a better job on hard surfaces, while the Saros 20’s DuoDivide brush is designed to resist hair tangles, reducing the amount of maintenance required.

— Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 23 June 2026

Definition of tangles

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In the video, backed by champagne synths and hopscotching snares, a tuxedoed Jaeychino strolls the beach in Margiela sneakers, his jacket flapping in the wind as seafoam washes ashore.

— Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
Further down the street, a troupe of drummers held court with a mix of snares and bass.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 16 June 2026

Definition of snares

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As her daughter sweeps away the last piles of sand, 54-year-old Nuru Mohammed directs women hanging fishing nets to serve as décor.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
Deploying nets and traps from armored breakwalls and along shoreline boulders, their efforts weren't successful in 2024.

— Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 July 2026

Definition of nets

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Zelizer said Trump’s financial entanglements might be the most monarchical part of his administration.

— Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
The Republic’s first decades were shaped by the rivalry between the British and French empires, and George Washington used his farewell address to warn his countrymen against permanent foreign entanglements.

— Ian Bremmer, Time, 25 June 2026

Definition of entanglements

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And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.

— Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026

Definition of labyrinths

Noun

With their billowing sails, teakwood decks and mazes of ropes and rigging, ships like Eagle draw throngs of visitors hoping to get a glimpse of the past.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
To test that, the final group completed cognitively demanding games such as mazes and shape puzzles called tangrams that contained no academic content.

— Supreet Kaur, Scientific American, 10 June 2026

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