as in tangle
something that catches and holds
the representative was forced to resign after getting caught in a noose of lies and corruption
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Recent Examples of noose
Charlie Parker’s Favorite Painting (1946) indicates Abercrombie’s engagement with social issues: a yellow noose, nearly fluorescent against a dishwater sky, dangles from a barren tree—an oblique lament from the doggedly antiracist Abercrombie.
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Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Police determined that Brown's DNA matched the DNA found on the noose, according to a forensic report issued on March 10.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, the Confederate noose was tightening around Fort Sumter, in the waters off Charleston, where the Northern garrison was effectively under blockade.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
The set crew came upon a mummy, painted in Day-Glo red and hanging from a wall by a noose.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
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Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Police determined that Brown's DNA matched the DNA found on the noose, according to a forensic report issued on March 10.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, the Confederate noose was tightening around Fort Sumter, in the waters off Charleston, where the Northern garrison was effectively under blockade.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
The set crew came upon a mummy, painted in Day-Glo red and hanging from a wall by a noose.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noose
Noun
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Other experimental drugs have targeted the tau tangles, a different protein that builds up inside nerve cells.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
30 May 2025
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Despite the sleek design of modern gadgets and the rise of wireless solutions, both businesses and consumers still live in a frustrating tangle of cables.—
Mark Vena,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
Noun
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During their surveys, researchers set up mist nets of various sizes and waited to see what flew into the traps, the study said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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Mazzotti said iguanas love the color red — biologists often lure them into traps with red flowers, strawberries or even red marbles.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
6 June 2025
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For instance, the researchers uncovered an incident from 2008, when scientists had observed a male chimp freeing an unrelated female from a nylon snare set by hunters to trap game.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2025
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Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research suggests.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
14 May 2025
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Humpback whales are native to the mid-Atlantic region and boat strikes are a leading cause of death, along with entanglement with fishing gear, NOAA Fisheries reports.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
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Balancing industry with conservation But perhaps the biggest threat to North Atlantic right whales is entanglements, often in fishing gear.—
Nate Iglehart,
Christian Science Monitor,
21 May 2025
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The city’s extensive labyrinth of catacombs was nearby as well, underground ossuaries crammed full of the skeletal remains of millions of Parisians.—
Anelise Chen
June 3,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2025
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Infant formula is also highly regulated, presenting any new entrant with a labyrinth of hoops to jump through.—
Alisha Haridasani Gupta,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
Noun
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Credential dumps from breached companies are traded daily on the dark web.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Last year, Florida’s Department of Health also experienced a breach that caused death certificate delays and led to thousands of records, including HIV test results, detailed doctors notes and immunization and virus testing records ending up on the dark web.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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However, these systems become organizational quicksand in volatile environments where exceptions become the rule.—
Nate Bennett,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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From sticky asphalt graves to dinosaur-eating quicksand, these sites reveal how nature sometimes sets its own snares, and how life—on a mass scale—meets its end.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Elsewhere, Neo’s office building becomes a maze of cubicles.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
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The Mackenzie River Delta is a maze of lakes and waterways stretching hundreds of square miles.—
Gavin John,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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“Noose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noose. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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