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tangled

in a confused mass pushed back her tangled hair the tangled ropes (= Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious the Byzantine tax structure Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship convoluted legal language convoluted reasoning the plot was too involved a knotty problem got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering Oh, what a tangled web we weave — Sir Walter Scott tortuous legal procedures tortuous negotiations lasting for months

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Simple sentences

The cat tangled up all the threads.
Her hair is tangled.
My hair is tangled.

Movie subtitles

Yeah, I'm a bit late because my extensions got tangled in my belly-button ring, which got tangled in my snake.
It could get tangled in your hair.
We were doing all right till we tangled with this Morgan dame.
When I heard you betting last night with Long Jack. I sneaked up on deck and tangled up his trawl.
But then I got all tangled up in the curtain with the cat.
I can show Bryan, our DA, that if he goes around tryin' to collect everybody he'll have a tangled case but if he sticks to Wilmer here, he can get a conviction standing on his head.
We're going into places where men's minds are more tangled than the worst underbrush in the jungle, and I'm afraid.
I'm always getting him aboard ship when he's tangled up in something like this.
I'd get all tangled up in that stuff and choke myself to death.
That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train.
If I got tangled up with you, I might forget myself and break your neck.
We were late because we tangled with Zeros on the way to the target.
That's the second time I've tangled with that mouthy no-good.
If you opened me up, youd find my nerves tangled up like Chinese noodles.
If you get tangled, I'll jump in and pull you out.
I'm always getting him aboard ship when he's tangled in something like this.
I'd get tangled up in that stuff and choke myself.
It isn't filthy, it's just a little tangled.
You was all tangled up in something.
Yet out of this apparent chaos, these people bring tomorrows show, fresh and new and gay and hot, no matter how tangled the skein of their own lives may be.
Women don't keep their jewelry in a purse getting all twisted and scratched and tangled up.
Just make up your mind not to get tangled up with a man again.
I can't understand why you want me around after what's happened. When tragedy strikes a house, the lives of everyone in it become tangled up.
Look, Bill, Let's not get tangled up In a lot of things that don't matter.
I tried to pull down the shade and it flew out of my hand and it's all tangled up!
Anything wrong, Carl? I tangled with Thurston today.
And that jewellery - Women don't keep their jewellery in a purse getting all twisted and scratched and tangled up.
I think, Captain Wiles, we're tangled up in a murder.
Don't get the ends tangled!
Say, peace-maker, I believe you got your spurs all tangled up there.

News and current affairs

SINGAPORE - The tangled web of international organizations that constitutes global governance has become so remote and ineffective that few count on it to deliver results anymore.
Similarly, kites get tangled in trees, and if you climb the tree to free it, you might look over your neighbor's wall and see a woman without her veil, which would put you in sin.
Considering the tangled involvement of Iran's leaders in the economy, the effect of sanctions should not be underestimated.
In this regard, history's heritage in Central Europe is extraordinarily tangled.
The shrug of Rand's heroic entrepreneurs is to be found today within the tangled ciphers of corporate and government balance sheets.
Geithner also established a tangled web of connections between the New York Fed and JPMorgan Chase, some of which linger to this day.
But these arguments became tangled up in a broader critique of the Fed's actions.
In this tangled knot of regional wars, crises, and conflicts, Iran's nuclear ambitions look like a ticking time bomb - and plenty of new dynamite is being accumulated throughout the region.
Europe has no policy responses open to it to respond to such a calamity because its fiscal situation is already weak and the new European Central bank is tangled in ineffectiveness and a dated obsession with fighting inflation.

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