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She found herself drawn to “the tanglement of ontologies, the dialogue between worlds” — intriguing ideas, or that’s what she told herself.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

But before plunging into the tanglement of these rather complicated problems, it will make for clearness if we consider quite briefly the philosophic heritage of social teaching to which the Middle Ages succeeded.

From Mediaeval Socialism by Jarrett, Bede

I began to see some of the tanglement of nature, and appreciate the solemn mystery of our travel across this vexed and care-warped world.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

But English copses are often one wild tanglement of trailing flowering shrubs, with banks of bracken or ferns.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon

Recollection followed puzzlement on his yet unguarded face; he passed his fingers through his tousled hair, making further tanglement.

From Stepsons of Light by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove