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Synonyms for ensnarl

to twist together so that separation is difficult

to gain control of or an advantage over by or as if by trapping

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Synonyms for ensnarl

entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh

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From these studies, we also learn something timely and important about school principals, who recently were shown (by Public Agenda, in Trying to Stay Ahead of the Game) to be especially frustrated and exasperated by the bureaucracy, red tape, and politics that ensnarl them in regular school systems.3 We learn that they are prepared to do more than gripe!
As we said our goodbyes, I could not resist remarking: Is it not a better world in which we write about each other rather than try to ensnarl people into betraying their countries?
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We can't argue that science is apolitical, and yet we're ensnarled in controversy the moment we enter the arena.
Before she knows it, Jean's ensnarled in the underbelly of the dead man's life.
Ensnarled in this prosaic web, Dorothea's relational ethics come to loggerheads with Nietzsche's, but now divorced from the Christian perfectionism that were wrongly alleged to undergird Eliot's ethical stance.
This dream has become ensnarled in the material dynamics of uneven geographical development, and its infrastructures have been repurposed for the expansion of the oil frontier.
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The highlights of "Ray Donovan" have always been the debauchery that ensnarls Voight's Mickey Donovan, particularly when it involves dancing.
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Rousseff, who was re-elected in 2014 for a four-year term, is being blamed for the country's economic crisis and the overlapping corruption investigations that have ensnarled much of Brazil's political establishment.