Thesaurus results for NOOSES

nooses

noun

plural of noose

as in traps

something that catches and holds the representative was forced to resign after getting caught in a noose of lies and corruption

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Recent Examples of nooses For almost a decade, the company headed by Elon Musk has been trying to fend off allegations that the assembly line in Tesla’s Fremont plant was a hostile work environment filled with racist slurs, graffiti and drawings of nooses and swastikas. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026 Some right-wing lawmakers wore gold nooses to Monday's session. — Matt Bradley, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026 Tensions between Black and White high school students escalate after nooses were hung from a tree to taunt Black students. — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 11 Feb. 2026 The move capped back-and-forth revisions of the Coast Guard policy on swastikas, nooses and other hate symbols that had sparked an uproar. — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025 After news broke of the Coast Guard’s plan to downgrade the language on swastikas and nooses, Lunday quickly released a memo to all service personnel that condemned both symbols and said they were not allowed in the workplace. — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2025 Since the shoulder seams unfasten under pressure, the armholes can't be used as makeshift nooses, either. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 17 Dec. 2025 In the yard, decorations include nooses, hanging bodies, guards in towers and barbed wire fences. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025 Bags full of nooses had already been found. — Robin Yassin-Kassab, Time, 17 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Watch the Margaret Todd and other sailboats glide past as lobster boats head out to check their traps.

— Morgan Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026
In an effort to avoid custom-design traps, the Dutch carrier chose an off-the-shelf model from seat manufacturer Stelia that was already flying on sister airline Air France.

— Edward Russell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of traps

Noun

In the nearly 3,000 patients who donated their brains to science, the brains of those who took estrogen were less likely to show neurobiological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, such as beta-amyloid plaques or tangles of tau protein.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
An overabundance of the SORLA protein protected against a number of biological processes linked to the formation of tau tangles and progression of neurodegeneration.

— Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2026

Definition of tangles

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The team covers 6 to 12 miles a day on foot, tracking poachers and their snares.

— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026
Recounting her boyfriend calling the police on her during their fraught break-up, the chorus rings out over rowdy snares like a brutal playground taunt.

— Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026

Definition of snares

Noun

Not to mention the foreign business entanglements of his family members.

— James Robenalt, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
The conditions that allowed MAHA to flourish—the trust deficit, the corporate entanglements, the gap between research and community, the invisibility of public health in people’s daily lives—have been festering for decades.

— Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026

Definition of entanglements

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And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.

— Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026

Definition of labyrinths

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Others still involve video to a significant degree but incorporate more explicit 3D information, like data related to positioning, meshes, and so on somewhere in the process.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
This might be the last chance to get these items, so check out the latest sales and savings on meshes and routers.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026

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