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Literary notes about enmeshed (AI summary)

In literature, "enmeshed" is used to evoke images of intricate, often inescapable entanglements—both physical and metaphorical. Writers employ the term to describe situations where characters or objects become ensnared in complex networks of relationships, emotions, or circumstances. For instance, it can portray the tangible interlocking of natural elements, such as the roots of a plant becoming deeply intertwined with its neighbor [1], or emphasize how a character’s personality and passions can trap another in a web of misguided devotion [2]. Similarly, the word is applied to the subtleties of social or bureaucratic constraints, where one finds themselves caught up in systems far larger than themselves [3].
  1. That is the reason it is so hard to transplant the Gerardia—its roots are enmeshed and entangled so in other roots below ground.
    — from Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 1 [June 1901] by Various
  2. His personality, his work, his enthusiasm had enmeshed her, blinded her—and she had mistaken her feelings for love!
    — from Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland
  3. The requisition enmeshed itself in the red-tape at the general offices of the system.
    — from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

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