How to Use entanglement in a Sentence

entanglement

noun
  • By the end of the episode, the whole entanglement blows up in the trio’s faces.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 July 2021
  • This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • This was the younger male whale’s first entanglement, the NOAA said.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The new lawsuit is far from the first entanglement the 34-year-old actor has had with the law.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The next shoe to drop will be the entanglement between the Fed and Treasury on the revenue side.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Over time, qubits tend to lose their state and, thus, lose their entanglement.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Snow Cone's first calf was killed by a boat, and the calf born during her entanglement has not been seen since April.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
  • And the one entanglement that occurred over 20 years ago did not result in a right whale death.
    — Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Researchers blame entanglement in fishing lines and ropes as the main cause of the species’ decline.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Boat strikes and entanglement in fishing gear are the leading killers of right whales.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
  • An entanglement can kill a whale quickly by drowning it, or over the course of many painful months.
    — Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • An entanglement can kill a whale quickly by drowning it, or over the course of many painful months.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Then the story becomes the entanglement of Mike, Isaac ad Daniel.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Karen Irwin of Plymouth credits the group for helping her work through the entanglement of anger and grief in 2012.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Most whale deaths humans are aware of are caused by boats and entanglement in fishing gear.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Temika has two children and is in an entanglement with the father of those kids.
    — Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The uptick in gray whale sightings is in line with a general increase in whale entanglements over the years.
    — Katarina Zimmer, National Geographic, 7 May 2018
  • But perhaps the biggest bombshell was Byrne’s claims of entanglement with the FBI.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2019
  • All of these entanglements are levers that can be pulled to shift his behavior.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The biggest problem for the dolphins has been entanglement in gill nets, causing them to drown.
    — Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
  • Twenty-two of the entanglements were caused by Dungeness crab gear.
    — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Dragging the rope, nursing her calf, and healing from injuries caused by the entanglement could prove too much for the mother whale.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • It was said that the God Mercury loved a good time, a risqué entanglement, and a chance to try out numerous positions in one night.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 12 June 2021
  • The gear contributed to a record number of entanglements in 2016.
    — Katarina Zimmer, National Geographic, 7 May 2018
  • But thanks to the entanglement, the noise in the two pulses is highly correlated.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Graham hates tourists, and strictly avoids entanglements with them as a rule.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 June 2020
  • Given The Sinner’s focus on the way events stay with us, Cora’s case may be in the past, but the show’s emotional entanglement with it is not.
    — Karen Han, Vox, 31 July 2018
  • Necropsies have been done on at least half of those whales, of which about 40% had evidence of either a ship strike or entanglement.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • These measurements tell us something about the state of the ones that are holding on to the data—not enough to know their values (a measurement that would end the entanglement), but enough to tell if something has changed.
    — ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
  • Carlson, who headlined large rallies with the Republican during the 2024 campaign, earlier this month suggested that the president’s posture was breaking his pledge to keep the U.S. out of new foreign entanglements.
    — Meg Kinnard, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025

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