Thesaurus results for TANGLEMENT

tanglement

noun

ˈtaŋ-gəl-mənt

Definition of tanglement

as in tangle

something that catches and holds legal tanglements stemming from the museum's refusal to return the looted carvings

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Noun

They’re immediately pulled into a tangle of police reports, hospital notifications, insurance calls, and legal questions that can feel impossible to sort through while grieving.

— William Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026
Richie Laryea for Canada burst into the box in a good position but was brought to ground amid a tangle of legs with South Africa’s Khuliso Mudau.

— Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 28 June 2026

Definition of tangle

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
The safety car came out to allow the Red Bull to be recovered from the gravel trap it was parked in.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026

Definition of trap

Noun

Dark web markets are shrouded in secrecy, but admins of dark web marketplaces have been identified by law enforcement and arrested before.

— Tim McNicholas, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Note that the Username button will only appear on your primary mobile device, and not on the WhatsApp web or desktop app.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026

Definition of web

Noun

Old school computer gamers will be intimately familiar with the dungeon crawler genre, popularized by games like Wizardry and Eye of the Beholder, which involves moving in first-person on a grid, taking on monsters, finding treasure and delving deeper into a labyrinth.

— Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
Under the streets of Paris, a 75-mile labyrinth of pipes is at work trying to keep the parts of the city cool.

— Francois de Beaupuy, Fortune, 28 June 2026

Definition of labyrinth

Noun

Common threats include biotoxins, chemical contaminants, disease, and fishing gear entanglements, experts say.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026
Speaking in Portugal this week, Warsh seemed keen to move the Fed through judicial entanglements and get on with the task at hand.

— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 July 2026

Definition of entanglement

Noun

Located in a pasture that extends from outside her winter house all the way down to her long boxwood allée, the maze is now near completion, with her gardeners and outdoor grounds crew having just planted the last section.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 2 July 2026
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

Definition of maze

Noun

But Boise only managed to put three of those 15 shots on net to suffer its third home loss of the season.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 3 July 2026
La Albiceleste created more chances but could not get past the viral sensation in net or the stout Cape Verdean defense before the halftime whistle blew.

— Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

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