tangle with

phrasal verb

tangled with; tangling with; tangles with
informal
: to fight or argue with (someone or something)
He's not someone I would want to tangle with.

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The vacuum keeps itself free of tangles with a FlexiRazor that cuts away hair from the main brush. Andrew Gebhart, PCMAG, 11 Jan. 2025 Evans has been thrown out of a game once and hit with two, one-game suspensions for his tangles with Lattimore. Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025 Image Mayor Eric Adams spent the first 15 minutes of his State of the City address on shout-outs to commissioners who work for him, unions that support him and even officials who often tangle with him, like the speaker of the City Council, Adrienne Adams. James Barron, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025 Ideological warriors Republicans who are philosophically opposed to raising the debt limit have already tangled with Trump over a stopgap spending measure that included language to suspend the borrowing cap for two years. Tribune News Service, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for tangle with 

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“Tangle with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tangle%20with. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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