entanglement
Americannoun
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entanglements
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the act of entangling.
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the state of being entangled.
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something that entangles; snare; involvement; complication.
noun
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something that entangles or is itself entangled
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a sexual relationship regarded as unfortunate, damaging, or compromising
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Bringing the two together raises a fundamental question: what happens to familiar thermodynamic processes when quantum effects such as tunneling, entanglement, and superposition enter the picture?
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Our work shows that abundant natural light sources can be used for quantum entanglement, opening the possibility of more energy-efficient and accessible quantum technologies."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
"Quantum entanglement is crucial for applications such as secure communication, ultra-precise sensing and high-performance computation," said Cheng Li, a recent graduate of the University of Ottawa in Canada.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Monday’s filing is just the latest legal entanglement to involve Sable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Flames and rods and tubes and circles, not to say ordinary bulbous bulbs of every size and wattage and color, dangled like fruit from an ecstatic entanglement of wire vines.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
The former public health director has stuck to a platform centered on affordability at home and an end to foreign entanglements.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
But the risk has always been that the pendulum would swing too far, that wariness of foreign entanglements would lead America to abandon its global role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
It brought major disruption to marine ecosystems: mass die-offs of seabirds, fishery disasters, kelp degradation, whale entanglements, sea lion starvation, fish migration and harmful algal blooms, Amaya said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
The scale of Warsh’s wealth and his recent financial entanglements with some of the institutions the Fed is charged with overseeing are likely to be central issues at his Senate confirmation hearing next week.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
While he was waiting to see how these entanglements would work out, Bobby began to prepare for his defense of the World Championship, almost a year away.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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