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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Future quantum computers may depend on the ability to connect widely separated modules through distributed entanglement.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
"Our experiments helped us reveal several factors that may have prevented scientists from designing a functional quantum bath using a single source of correlated photons for distributed entanglement," says Fink.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
These involve 'all-or-nothing' forms of entanglement that stationary qubits can use.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Having spent the better part of two decades researching the psychology of work, I believe that audience entanglement doesn’t just happen to full-time influencers.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
She descended from her roost, numb in her arms and legs from her entanglement in the rough limbs.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
When the Fed takes those risks instead, it creates the entanglements with those securities’ issuers that Mr. Warsh wants to end.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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
When it came to the latter, it was our job to translate the intricate plot twists and romantic entanglements.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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