tangle
to twist together into a confused or knotted mass
Tangle in a sentence
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The kite strings tangled so badly that we spent an hour separating them.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The committee's report was praised for its candor, yet its central recommendation was so blank that administrators could cite it to justify nearly any policy they had already resolved to pursue.
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needless repetition of the same idea in different words
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