as in tangle
something that catches and holds
a married woman hopelessly caught in the toils of an extramarital affair
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as in labors
to devote serious and sustained effort
toiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toils
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 -
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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What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological background, suddenly becomes an inescapable trap.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
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
Verb
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Additionally, the jail struggles to provide adequate food, and unsanitary food distribution practices have left detainees vulnerable to malnutrition, pest infestations and other harms.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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But Moore sometimes struggles to take responsibility in the way expected of leaders.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Jan. 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
Verb
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Eggers and his go-to production designer Craig Lathrop also put a unique emphasis on building realistic worlds—their production design strives extra hard to close gaps between Eggers’s olden aesthetic and the modern audience’s perception.—
Maya Ibbitson,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2024
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The company strives to be more than just a pet product brand.—
FunnyFuzzy Contributor,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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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Disappoint Me, by Nicola Danin May 27 Nicola Danin’s first novel, the Lambda finalist Bellies, was a gorgeous tale of platonic entanglement and first love.—
Isle McElroy,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
Verb
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The former calls for a counterfactual view of how testing works; the latter calls for political will and policy ideas not currently in evidence.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
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The office also works with the Connecticut State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit, which investigates the cause and origin of fires and arson.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
30 Nov. 2024
Noun
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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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“Toils.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toils. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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