as in tangles
something that catches and holds
legal tanglements stemming from the museum's refusal to return the looted carvings
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This Levoit vacuum just dropped under $200, and its impressive ability to pick up hair without any tangles is a pet owner’s dream.
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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.
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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.
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How Often To Clean A Jute Rug The textured weave of a jute rug traps sand, dirt, and dust.
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This might be the last chance to get these items, so check out the latest sales and savings on meshes and routers.
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Microservices introduced flexibility but also required service meshes, observability platforms and policy controls.
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Zelizer said Trump’s financial entanglements might be the most monarchical part of his administration.
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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.
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And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.
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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.
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There has to be a chance that Jos Buttler’s toils in Sri Lanka and India represent his last ventures on the international stage, and therefore the end of an era.
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Both were premised on the idea of frictionless ease, liberating their users from outmoded toils.
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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.
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To test that, the final group completed cognitively demanding games such as mazes and shape puzzles called tangrams that contained no academic content.
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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.
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Deploying nets and traps from armored breakwalls and along shoreline boulders, their efforts weren't successful in 2024.
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“Tanglements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanglements. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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