as in complicated
having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated
it helps to have a lawyer to sort out the tangled contracts that home buyers typically have to contend with
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as in trapped
to catch or hold as if in a net
was at last tangled in the web of lies that he had told to everyone
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as in knotted
to twist together into a usually confused mass
that darn cat tangled the yarn I was trying to knit with
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Recent Examples of tangled
Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
But the country’s new leaders will also have to look outward, balancing the tangled, sometimes contradictory interests of many foreign powers — some friendly, some hostile, some wary.
—Josh Holder, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Hulu is going deeper into the tangled web of Tell Me Lies.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2024
The water that flooded into some tents in Deir al-Balah soaked everything inside, leaving blankets and carpets a tangled, dusty mess.
—Abeer Salman, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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The scandal involves a tangled web of personalities and businesses.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
But the country’s new leaders will also have to look outward, balancing the tangled, sometimes contradictory interests of many foreign powers — some friendly, some hostile, some wary.
—Josh Holder, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Hulu is going deeper into the tangled web of Tell Me Lies.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2024
The water that flooded into some tents in Deir al-Balah soaked everything inside, leaving blankets and carpets a tangled, dusty mess.
—Abeer Salman, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tangled
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Although these big chip platforms are complicated to make, Nvidia can apply lessons learned from the Blackwell ramp to future product iterations.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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With triads, one dropout will force you into more complicated rematching.—
Kevin Kruse,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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These new platforms need to be able to embrace intricate supply chain data, real-time alerting, and complex decision-support tradeoffs.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Their songs contained more complex sounds, and the mice switched between those sounds in more intricate patterns.—
Carl Zimmer,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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What the presence of TSMC does do is complicate an already complex situation.—
Kerry Brown,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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That the aircraft impacted the ground so violently will no doubt complicate investigators' work, given the state of the physical evidence, Axios' Fitzpatrick adds.—
Isaac Avilucea,
Axios,
2 Feb. 2025
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Trump administration to acknowledge only a person’s gender assigned at birth, officials say Human biology is complex, and not all individuals fit neatly into binary categories, Evans told ABC News.—
Dr. Allia Vaez,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2025
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The complex case has many possibilities, and the pursuit of a new trial is just one path the brothers are exploring in their quest to rejoin society.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Tangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tangled. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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