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A main cause was entangling alliances among failing empires which had provided stability for many long years but were no longer able to keep the peace.

From Fox News • Nov. 12, 2018

"The web of our own fuzzy thinking was entangling us more and more when I was privileged to be present during the only true flash of genius I've ever witnessed."

From The Moralist by Taylor, Jack

I knew indeed now, even as Willersley had prophesied five years before, that I was entangling myself in something that might smother all my uses in the world.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

On emerging, however, below the cloud, the first object that loomed out of the mist immediately below us was a cargo vessel, in the rigging of which our trail rope was entangling itself.

From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by Bacon, John Mackenzie

It was clear to him that that fellow was entangling her in some monstrous way—part and parcel no doubt of this militant propaganda—and calculating on developments.

From Delia Blanchflower by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.