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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“Because of this entanglement, this whale is not able to move freely,” Harbor Breeze Cruises posted along with a video of the whale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Instead of studying photons or other relatively long-lived quantum systems, the researchers searched for entanglement between pairs of Z bosons, massive particles that exist for only a tiny fraction of a second before decaying.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Albert Einstein famously called entanglement "spooky action at a distance," and scientists have previously observed the effect in systems involving photons, electrons and trapped ions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Court documents lay out the entanglement between Owens and Echard in vivid detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Elizebeth was still wary of entanglement, but sparks began to fly between them—a “Flame which we kindled together.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Not all businesses that rely on actual people moving through their interfaces will stand united against agents, either, especially when they have their own web of entanglements with the biggest A.I. companies.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
“People are right to think about conflicts of interest and not being involved in commercial entanglements with the labs,” Purser said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan pressed for personal and corporate income-tax rate cuts as well as curbs on their governments’ private-sector entanglements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Vessel strikes and entanglements are leading causes of whale deaths, according to advocacy groups and government trackers worldwide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
At night, patrols went out into no man’s land to repair wire damaged by artillery fire, or to clear a path through the entanglements in advance of an infantry attack the next day.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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