entanglement
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- noun
- /ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/
- Through a combination of wartime conditions and unwise decision-making, Iraq gradually moved towards the entanglement of national indebtedness.
- excessive entanglement
- government entanglement
- foreign entanglements
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Watch on YouTubeI think they're consistent with the founders who did want to avoid foreign entanglements and so forth.
- I think they're consistent with the founders who did want to avoid foreign entanglements and so forth.
- But Megan is as sleazy, as corrupt as the Biden foreign financial entanglements are.
- Is that where there is an, you could say a karmic entanglement, right?
Examples
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The sooner we own up to our entanglement with the issues, the sooner we increase our usefulness.
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One thing we have learned over the years is that regulatory entanglements follow federal funding.
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Meanwhile I'll try to rescue Anne from this entanglement.
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Aren't you in an entanglement as we speak?
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Americans lose interest in foreign entanglements for a while.
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With all these foreign entanglements, it was bound to happen.
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Colombia's entanglement with the drug trade in the mid-1980s changed all of that.
Academic text (1999) -
Second, judicial interpretation of some state laws may result in excessive governmental entanglement with religion.
Academic text (1990) -
In this article, I examine the entanglements of landscape aesthetics and property in an ordinary residential landscape.
Academic text (2011) -
After months of negotiations, they found themselves in an entanglement that involved multiple legal issues.
Synonyms
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A thing that catches and holds animals or tricks people
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A complicated network that can trap or confuse people
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6.4
The act of trapping people or animals with tricks and traps
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A situation in which someone is trapped by a trick or tool
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A difficult, confusing situation that involves conflict, often between people or in politics
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Things twisted and woven together so they are closely connected
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A close, often complicated connection between people, groups, or ideas
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Being tied or locked so someone cannot move
A state where something is caught in a net or tangled in lines
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Etymology
Entanglement comes from the parts en- 'in' and tangle 'a knot', so it means being 'in a knot'. Imagine being caught in a net or web; that image explains why an entanglement is a tricky situation or device that traps you.