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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
intangle .
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Examples
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Many know and the rest of us are just finding out that in this turbulent month of September, the US is experiencing a financial 9/11, probably worse than the one in 2001, as a series of cataclysmic developments rock our economic system which is, in turn, intangled with others worldwide.
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Money of that vile Treasure, the Snare that had intangled both
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One way around this is to note that the observer himself inevitably becomes intangled in the wave function, leading to a sort of “many worlds” picture like I discussed above.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask Sean 2008
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Thus was I again catch'd faster than ever: Her abandoning her self and her Family, drew fast that Snare, in which her Beauty had before intangled me.
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And pluck'd wild clusters from the intangled shade;
Progress of Society 2006
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Thus was I again catch'd faster than ever: Her abandoning her self and her Family, drew fast that Snare, in which her Beauty had before intangled me.
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We'd best not get too much more intangled in the KalWorld.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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From that I take heart and hope that some day I can combine the verve of Paradise, the unity of the Beautiful + Damned and the lyric quality of Gatsby, its aesthetic soundness, into something worthy of the admiration of those few—God, I am inextricably intangled in that sentence, and the only thing to do is to start a new one.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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From that I take heart and hope that some day I can combine the verve of Paradise, the unity of the Beautiful + Damned and the lyric quality of Gatsby, its aesthetic soundness, into something worthy of the admiration of those few—God, I am inextricably intangled in that sentence, and the only thing to do is to start a new one.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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For the coral, they lower down a swab, composed of what is called spunyarn on board our ships of war, hanging in distinct threads, and sunk by means of a great weight, which, striking against the coral in its descent, disengages it from the rocks; and some of the pieces being intangled among the threads of the swab, are brought up with it above water.
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