A bola with three, four, or five weights is most commonly associated with hunting large birds like geese since their hollow bones are particularly vulnerable to strikes and their wings are susceptible to entanglement.
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The superpowers of quantum computers rely on holding the qubits—quantum bits—that make them up in exotic quantum states like superposition and entanglement.
Could Quantum Computing Progress Be Halted by Background Radiation?|Edd Gent|August 31, 2020|Singularity Hub
Now, on the train west, Mead would remember weeping in Benedict’s arms, parsing her troubled marriage and other romantic entanglements.
Gender Is What You Make of It - Issue 88: Love & Sex|Charles King|August 5, 2020|Nautilus
We were operating in an environment where the public and Parliament was deeply skeptical about getting involved in these entanglements.
The Prime Minister Who Cried Brexit (Ep. 392)|Stephen J. Dubner|October 10, 2019|Freakonomics
The corporate eye does not light up over inappropriate sexual behavior and entanglement with the law.
Autism and Child Pornography: A Toxic Combination|Eustacia Cutler|August 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He drifted into an entanglement with Mrs. Raikes, and she deliberately cultivated the friendship of Dr. Bauerstein.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles|Agatha Christie
Undoing the slip-knot of his painter, he shoves the canoe clear of its entanglement among the roots of the tree.
The Death Shot|Mayne Reid
The entanglement of the commentator just quoted in the literary fault of the parable is inexcusable.
The Syrian Christ|Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
I had not yet heard the last of Herr von Rosenau's entanglement, nor was I destined to escape from playing my part in it.
Stories By English Authors: Italy|Various
This is one instance of the entanglement in which the theory of progress, pure and simple, from a parent stock will involve us.
Tradition|John Francis Arundell
British Dictionary definitions for entanglement
entanglement
/ (ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt) /
noun
something that entangles or is itself entangled
a sexual relationship regarded as unfortunate, damaging, or compromising
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