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Examples of tangle

tangle
Both couples now mismatched, a great tangle ensues.
The fundamental continuity of environmental media and ecosystems raises the specter of large-scale indivisibilities and a complex tangle of joint and multiple uses.
The complexity is hidden in an unseen tangle of streams.
Exploration existed within a tangle of pressures, obligations, and the demands of an attentive public.
Questions of honesty and allocation of credit do not arise in isolation but are mired in a real-world tangle of relationships, hierarchy, and uncertain consequences.
One of the four bounds to the former neighbor atoms is then tangling and produces p-conduction.
Dealing with these tagliatelli-like tangles demands continual abstraction to seek order, deeper meaning and more unifying links.
I shall not tangle with issues of this kind.
The complexity of the arguments is itself a reflection of the tangle of factors determining current spelling practice.
But these demands arising out of a tangle of information and expectation may dominate the case scenario.
Specifically, he noticed the presence of homoclinic tangles and inferred that the series solutions of the equations of motion diverge.
The ropes had got tangled in the storm and it was too rough to right them.
The often criticized tangle of plots and subplots in a typical eighteenth-century libretto had one very important function.
The undergrowth was thick and dominated by tangles of climbers, giant herbs and thorny creepers.
This is quite a different "tangle" than the experience of fright without solution.
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