The word 'entangle' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a complicated situation or a problem where multiple elements interact in a complex way. For example: The entanglement of politics and business in the country has resulted in difficult decisions for its citizens.
A nation warned from the beginning about what Thomas Jefferson called "entangling alliances" is struggling once again with the question of how much to entangle itself with another country.
Sporting bodies who entangle their national teams in a surfeit of red tape tend to receive little sympathy.
Devilishly complicated "rules of origin", which define how much local content is required before a good is considered South African and thus eligible for preferential access to the EU, entangle investors in red tape and will deter many from setting up shop in South Africa.The biggest losers from all these sweetheart deals are the countries they exclude.
All the while, Mr Abramoff celebrated his own amorality, referring to his clients as "morons".The Abramoff affair, the biggest corruption scandal for a generation, will surely entangle some Democrats.
In a recent interview with Veja, a weekly news magazine, Gilmar Mendes, one of the 11 members of the Supreme Court, claimed that Lula had threatened to entangle him in that investigation unless the judge found a way to delay until after October's elections the trial of the defendants in an older corruption saga: the so-called "mensalão".
Raymond Laflamme and his colleagues at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, have managed to entangle 12 qubits by performing a similar trick, entangling certain atoms within a single molecule of an amino acid called histidine, the properties of which make it particularly suited to such experiments.The problem with these approaches is that they will not be easy to scale up.
But they are vexed about a seemingly endless flow of new regulations that entangle them in more and more red tape.The government has responded by insisting on stricter "regulatory impact assessments" of legislation.
Compare that, say senior administration officials, to the years it took to intervene in Bosnia in the 1990s.To those hyper-realists who ask why it was necessary for America to entangle itself in Libya at all, the president's answer appears to run as follows.
These include a bipartisan push to simplify the corporate-tax laws that currently entangle American businesses, tempting many bosses to hoard profits overseas or move their headquarters abroad.
Some have argued that introducing genocide will further entangle a process already beset by delays and confusion.
Yet the accepted method of turning a small-screen hit onto a big-screen success is to make everything bigger and brighter: pack the cast off to an exotic location or entangle them in a crime caper, preferably featuring odd henchmen and mistaken identities.
