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entangle

[en-tang-guhl] / ɛnˈtæŋ gəl /


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By cooling and manipulating these atoms, scientists can entangle them and perform highly precise computations.

From Barron's May 20, 2026

“Unguided chatbot responses, for example, cannot be neatly constrained. Attempts to do so will either be insufficient or entangle developers in a morass of third-rail social issues.”

From Salon Aug. 14, 2025

Silicon vacancy center-based network nodes can catch, store and entangle bits of quantum information while correcting for signal loss.

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

So I began to entangle my Waking Life within the Dreaming Life.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2024

I disentangle my finger so that I can entangle all the others until our palms are pressed against each other.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

It nestles and entangles itself in for the long haul.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

Those numbers, however, don't amount to much in the grand scheme, given the rate at which Louisiana "incarcerates and prosecutes and entangles people in the criminal legal system left and right every day," Romero said.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2024

It has put banks on high alert, though their efforts to catch the fraud also routinely entangles innocent customers, causing institutions to suddenly freeze or shut down customer accounts in the process.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2023

But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2023

Literally, an impediment is that which entangles the feet; hence, that which hinders or interferes.

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.

Archer’s main competitor in the air taxi space is Joby, a startup based in Santa Cruz that has been entangled in a bitter legal battle with Archer for more than a year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Schiller delves, inevitably, into the history of AARP, an organization that even in its earliest days was entangled with the health insurance industry.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Though it gets entangled in the topic of retirement, it isn’t the same question.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

"The hardest part was getting out," recalled Gil, whose legs had been entangled in a chair.

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

Some were entangled in the plants, leaves growing between the skinny bars.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds

The other $0.9 trillion is the Treasury’s General Account, where the Treasury parks cash awaiting disbursement—an entangling service the Fed only began providing in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

Washington's warning about the dangers of entangling alliances was followed for 150 years.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2026

More consolidation – and more influential corporate giants – risks more deeply entangling the interests of profit-driven companies in America’s food system.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2024

The Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston.

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

He rose quickly as though to cast off some entangling danger.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck




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