Thesaurus results for ENVELOPMENT

envelopment

noun

Definition of envelopment

as in entanglement

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Recent Examples of envelopment Recent acoustical changes to the ever-challenging Houston hall have even yielded more sonic presence, warmth and envelopment. — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026

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Trump successfully tapped into these grievances by promising to scale back international entanglements and bring back factories and manufacturing jobs.

— Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
Scientists at the University of Oxford developed a quantum network using two different atoms, strontium and calcium, and achieved a record entanglement time of 10 seconds.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of entanglement

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The show worked with local police, but many of the criminal cases later ended up being thrown out due to issues of entrapment or jurisdiction, per Fischel; none of the other men arrested in the sting that included Conradt’s suicide were prosecuted.

— Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
The terror is physical entrapment, an unbearable ticking clock with Jay having one hour of oxygen left, alone with his thoughts.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of entrapment

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No single personality type or demographic was immune to the experience of a deep enmeshment with one’s audience, and to its profound consequences for their creativity and well-being.

— Julianna Pillemer, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026
Complex, intricate, and at all times realistic and humane, Famous Men is the pinnacle of the attempt to capture this specific and yet, all too universal, formative experience of enmeshment, devotion, and ego-death.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026

Definition of enmeshment

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Using that information to inform computer models, the scientists found that mosasaurs were skilled ambush predators built for a quick sneak attack.

— October 16, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
A couple of years later, in his major studio debut, Abrams worked alongside Ryan Gosling in Gangster Squad until his shoeshine boy character caught a bullet during a mob ambush near a newsstand.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of ambush

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Decodo, a web data company, tracked price changes in 2025 across products ranging from electronics to clothing and home improvement supplies.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
Watch for unexplained web addresses, encoded strings or commands that download and immediately execute remote scripts.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

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