enmeshed

verb

variants also immeshed
Definition of enmeshednext
past tense of enmesh
as in tangled
to catch or hold as if in a net soon after Eli Whitney had invented it, others copied his cotton gin, and he spent the rest of his life enmeshed in lawsuits trying to protect his invention

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  1. ensnared
  2. entangled
  3. meshed
  4. involved
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  • Since the shooting, the film and Baldwin have been ensnared in legal proceedings.
    Kristian Burt, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The outage seems to have also ensnared Zelle, the digital payment network that Bank of America owns with other banks.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of ensnared
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  • While the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is typically bipartisan in nature, it has been entangled in disagreements for months, mainly on Israel’s war against Hamas.
    Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Oct. 2024
  • According to Us Weekly, the acclaimed actor and the Hip-Hop mogul were entangled in a disagreement during a late-night event hosted by Combs in 2003.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of entangled
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  • One wheel meshed with the other.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The company’s growth is in part because many of its data software products meshed with the wave of AI hype.
    Phoebe Liu, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of meshed
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  • Part of that curriculum involved Día de los Muertos, which Gonzales described as an Indigenous ceremony that dates back millennia to the Aztec people of Mexico.
    Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Seafarer has been involved in legal proceedings, including a lawsuit filed against John Grimm, which was settled in February 2024.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of involved
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