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also immesh
as in to trap
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
The Night Agent upped the ante in its second outing, with Peter getting enmeshed in a chemical weapons threat and unwittingly swaying a presidential election that sends his moral compass spinning.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
With their school district enmeshed in culture war issues in recent years, voters in the Johnson and Miami county communities of Gardner and Edgerton on Tuesday voted in possibly two more liberal-leaning voices to the Gardner Edgerton School Board.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
His more conservative Viking colleagues questioned the project’s merits; Cowley was enmeshed in its difficulties.
—Michael Gorra, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Last month, Zerohash raised $104 million in funding from financial firms including Morgan Stanley and Interactive Brokers, part of its strategy to enmesh itself with banks and brokers that are building crypto products.
—Hugh Son, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
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At the landfill site dozens of rescuers scrambled overnight in search of people trapped.—
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How much is a trapping license in Kentucky?—
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Crowded roots may also be tightly packed and tangled, causing the plant to begin to push out of its pot.—
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Washington and Pro Bowl cornerback Christian Gonzalez get their feet tangled up and both went to the ground.—
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Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second.—
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Getting young people to trust and depend on the traffickers is part of entrapping them.—
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It's been nearly a decade since The Night Manager ensnared viewers in its sticky web of arms dealers, secret agents, and dodgy bureaucrats.—
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On Netflix April 24, 2026 | Action Thriller A grieving woman testing her limits in the Australian wilderness is suddenly ensnared in a deadly game with a ruthless predator.—
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“Enmesh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enmesh. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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