entanglement
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6.6
- noun
- /ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/
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enredo
- 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
I 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.
Academic text (1999) -
One thing we have learned over the years is that regulatory entanglements follow federal funding.
Academic text (1998) -
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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2.0
A thing that catches and holds animals or tricks people
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4.2
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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8.3
A situation in which someone is trapped by a trick or tool
A state where something is caught in a net or tangled in lines
A difficult, confusing situation that involves conflict, often between people or in politics
A close, often complicated connection between people, groups, or ideas
Things twisted and woven together so they are closely connected
Being tied or locked so someone cannot move
Antonyms
How Complicated
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.