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Another word for entanglement

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Noun

  1. The condition of being entangled or implicated

    See also:

    participate

    free

  2. Something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex

    See also:

    simple

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Another word for entanglement

Noun
  1. See also:

    difficulty

    confusion

    affair

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Sentence Examples

  • From this theological entanglement the problem of free will did not escape for long centuries.

  • For thirty years after the peace of Utrecht the Provinces kept themselves free from entanglement in the quarrels of their neighbours.

  • He skilfully avoided entanglement in the Jackson-Calhoun imbroglio.

  • They had rated each other highly in the entanglement, and by mutual consent began repeat­ing the performance regularly.

  • He had not the genius to find a way out of the French entanglement or the skill to steer a constitutional monarchy between rival factions.

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