tangled web
Frequency: 6.99.8 per million words
describing a complicated network or series of relationships.
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Examples (10)
- The politician was caught in a tangled web of lies and corruption.
- Her family history is a tangled web of secrets that took years to uncover.
- The company’s financial records revealed a tangled web of offshore accounts.
- He found himself trapped in a tangled web of deceit after the first small lie.
- The investigation aimed to unravel the tangled web of the criminal organization.
- Their relationship became a tangled web of emotions and misunderstandings.
- The spy lived a life defined by a tangled web of aliases and false identities.
- Modern global politics is often described as a tangled web of shifting alliances.
- The novelist expertly wove a tangled web of intrigue that kept readers guessing.
- Once you start deceiving people, you quickly create a tangled web that is hard to escape.