Thesaurus results for TANGLEMENTS

tanglements

noun

plural of tanglement

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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Noun

The shampoo didn’t strip the tester’s already-dry hair, and a two-minute conditioner left her tangles smooth enough to finger-comb.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
The brain’s surface has ridges and valleys, and CTE tangles are found in the depths of those valleys, called the cortical sulci, and surround blood vessels.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of tangles

Noun

Sacramento County Health Inspectors gave a red placard to Wienerschnitzel in Natomas after finding 33 German cockroaches in various areas of the facility including on the floor beneath the ice machine and on three glue traps.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Given mink’s reputation as escape artists, wildlife experts set up traps around infected farms.

— Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of traps

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Check out more of our Amazon Prime Day coverage and other deals on things like meshes and SSDs.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026
As the secondary meshes with the defensive front, and the offense gets wide receiver reinforcements with Tank Dell and Nico Collins, a rebound seems possible.

— Mike Jones, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of meshes

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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The kill switch metaphor reduces the infrastructural entanglements of AI to outdated ideas about technology.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

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

The gods themselves are also an unnerving presence, omnipresent beings of colossal power who see humans as their playthings and view Ulysses' toils as some twisted spectator sport.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026
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.

— Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026

Definition of toils

Noun

Slime molds, for example, can find efficient routes through mazes.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
The delays are not exactly surprising, nor does the blame for them lie with the city — a number of state and federal agencies are in charge here, each navigating their own bureaucratic mazes.

— Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of mazes

Noun

On a recent Monday morning in Santa Monica, beach volleyball phenom Sally Perez steps onto the sand and immediately notices that all the nets are hung to men’s standard height, not women’s.

— Katie Abel, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
Small mesh nets have been used before to keep insects away from crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers, and cabbage.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026

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