enmesh

variants also immesh
as in to entrap
to catch or hold as if in a net soon after Eli Whitney had invented it, others copied his cotton gin, and he spent the rest of his life enmeshed in lawsuits trying to protect his invention

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Recent Examples of enmesh It’s also enmeshed with a BEAMS PLUS twist on classic nautical style, blending craftsmanship with contemporary design. Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 17 Feb. 2025 When enmeshed with capitalism, genius fosters almost inordinate ambition and grants the kind of power that few would turn down but even fewer should wield. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025 Yarrow returned to his native Manhattan, upon graduation from college, and enmeshed himself in the Greenwich Village folk scene. Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2025 Anchored by Hailee Steinfeld’s charmingly sly title performance, the series cleverly enmeshes Dickinson’s indelible poetry with everyday frustrations (parents, crushes), world-historical occasions (the Civil War) and thoroughly modern slang. Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enmesh
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  • Gabi and Robinson head to the diner to entrap Maggie with yet another plate of cheese fries.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • In the initial announcement about the plan to vacate the convictions of felons entrapped by crack-selling stings in Broward County, the convicts were told not to contact the State Attorney's Office or the Broward Sheriff's Office.
    Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
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  • The family of shows ensnared plenty of big names throughout their air, including Gary Busey, Omarosa, LaToya Jackson and Lisa Rinna.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Microsoft’s center of gravity in corporate software ultimately ensnared Skype, which found itself in the Office division and under orders to build tools geared toward a workplace audience as well as a consumer one.
    Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • Land a fiber-optic drone in the wrong spot and its millimeters-thick, through which the drone sends and receives signals, could get tangled.
    David Axe, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Page, whose character is tangled in a complicated dynamic with Harris', framed the movie's tension as a battle between personal needs and global consequences.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
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  • Meanwhile, cries for help emerged on social media for a group of priests trapped inside a church in the Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood, which endured much of the attack by the Viv Ansanm gang coalition that began late Tuesday.
    Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • If your income is tied to your time, you can get trapped in an endless cycle of working just to keep the money flowing.
    Greg Clement, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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  • Read More: How Tiny Bubbles Could Deliver Medication to the Brain Entanglement and UV According to the study, besides the arrangement of the nanosheets, the arrangement of the polymers entangled between them helped create the gel.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
  • And Maddie gets entangled in a series of violent follow-home robberies.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2025
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  • Raftery said Tuesday in a conference call that coach Bill Self has had difficulty getting the new players to mesh.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Back to that misconception about oily skin and moisturizer not meshing together.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
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  • The Trump administration is trying to deport two other people involved in protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • While the Primary Wave deal closed just weeks after her death, sources said she was involved in nearly every aspect of the deal’s negotiations.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • But today, with both private equity and venture capital snared in a distribution drought, there might be a silver lining to darkening economic clouds.
    Dan Primack, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The flick snared $653 million at the domestic box office and more than $1 billion globally.
    Sarah Whitten,Sara Salinas,Russell Leung, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2025

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“Enmesh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enmesh. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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