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• v  entrap
• v  twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
  The child entangled the cord
• s  deeply involved especially in something complicated
  felt unwilling entangled in their affairs
• s  twisted together in a tangled mass
  toiled through entangled growths of mesquite
• s  involved in difficulties

• Ceca's career is hopelessly entangled in the corruption, ethnic cleansing and soft totalitarianism of the Milosevic era.
• Norwood was holding her son's dog tags, which became entangled in al-Souhail's cuff.
• High-flying tycoon Takafumi Horie is entangled in a fraud investigation, rattling stock markets and raising doubts about Japan's economic recovery.

• entangle
• mire
• tangle
• mat
• snarl
• embroiled

• disentangle
• unsnarl

News & Articles

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• Investor in Grand Canyon Skywalk dies at 51
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas businessman who developed the Grand Canyon Skywalk glass bridge in northwestern Arizona and later became entangled in legal battles about it has died in Los Angeles, a company representative said Friday.
  June 15, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• NW Indiana woman upset DNR euthanized fawn
  A northwest Indiana woman who rescued a deer fawn that got entangled in barbed wire and brought it to an animal hospital is upset the state Department of Natural Resources ordered it be euthanized.
  June 15, 2013 - WTHR Indianapolis
• Woman upset that DNR killed a fawn
  A northwest Indiana woman who rescued a deer fawn that got entangled in barbed wire and brought it to an animal hospital is upset the state Department of Natural Resources ordered it be euthanized. Read more at www.WISHTV.com
  June 14, 2013 - WISH-TV Indianapolis

Quotes

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• Scott Stanzel in New York Times
  The new democratic government of Iraq, during this crucial period of reconstruction, cannot afford to have its funds entangled in such lawsuits in the United States,Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said in a statement.
• Jeff Sessions in Daily Beast
  Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said, "The American people are not happy with the expanding power of the federal government. Democrats are expected to push back by portraying Republicans as entangled in...
• Barack Obama in Chicago Tribune
  I think I have done a good job in rising politically in this environmentwithout being entangled in some of the traditional problems of Chicagopolitics,Obama told reporters and editors at a Tribune editorial boardmeeting several weeks ago.