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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inextricably
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be closely/inextricably intertwined
▪ The problems of crime and unemployment are closely intertwined.
closely/inextricably/tightly etc interwoven
▪ The two themes are inextricably interwoven in the book.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
become
▪ So it was from the early 1960s that his career became inextricably linked to its growing success.
▪ It is then that the questions of who and what we are become inextricably linked with those about the nature of reality.
▪ What troubles their detractors, however, is the corporate power with which they have become inextricably linked.
▪ Her life had become inextricably involved with him.
▪ As such it was to become inextricably bound up with a number of conflicts surrounding such provision.
▪ Any insect touching it becomes inextricably stuck and very often buried within it as more resin flows around it.
bind
▪ In other words, Ahab fails to realize that good and evil are inextricably bound together and can not be separated.
link
▪ As young models, Liz and Vanessa become friends and then rivals, their lives linked inextricably over the years.
▪ Self-constituting activity is inextricably linked with meaning-producing activity 4.
▪ The representation of syntactic information in the lexicon is inextricably linked with the grammar being used.
▪ It is then that the questions of who and what we are become inextricably linked with those about the nature of reality.
▪ The end product of such a course of evolution is an obligate parasite that is inextricably linked to a particular host.
▪ Of course, the two mothering modifications are inextricably linked.
▪ We think of parrots as inextricably linked with our world.
▪ Thus, how the world presents itself to me and how I understand myself are inextricably linked.
mix
▪ Work is inextricably mixed with their lives.
tie
▪ One of the reasons for mounting unemployment in the Arab countries is the debt, a problem inextricably tied to military expenditures.
▪ Colleges and universities are inextricably tied up in the nexus of education and employment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inextricably

Inextricably \In*ex"tri*ca*bly\, adv. In an inextricable manner.

Wiktionary
inextricably

adv. 1 In an inextricable manner. 2 To an inextricable degree.

WordNet
inextricably

adv. in an inextricable manner; "motives inspired by Mammon were often inextricably blended with things pertaining to Caesar and to God"

Usage examples of "inextricably".

It was one of those bizarre twists of destiny in which he had become inextricably entangled, the moment he had stepped out of his car on the Cholon Road and tried to prevent that monk from doing what he believed he had to do.

One thing was certain: the fates of Eratosthenes and Hor-ent-yotf were inextricably interwoven, like designs into a funerary shroud.

Mr Moffat, grieved in his soul, was becoming inextricably bewildered by such facetiae as these, when an egg--and it may be feared not a fresh egg--flung with unerring precision, struck him on the open part of his well-plaited shirt, and reduced him to speechless despair.

Wemyss was delayed in answering, having become inextricably entangled with the nannyberry bush, and I was obliged to go and help release him.

He had never believed the die-hard psychobiologists who had insisted that the aesthetic judgments which underlay sexual attractiveness were genetically hardwired so that the idea of beauty and the appearance of youth were inextricably tied together.

The smells of the drying herbs above the cold parlor hearth, the sulfury whiff of the gunpowder she used in her gris-gris, the mildewy scent inextricably tied, in his mind, to every memory of New Orleans all these impressed themselves on him, like the unspeaking presence of that deity who lived in the blackpainted bottle on her shelf.

It is this class of British aristocracy whose fortunes are inextricably woven and intertwined with the drug trade, the gold, diamond and arms trades, banking, commerce and industry, oil, the news media and entertainment industry.

But there is no anticipating the mystery and power of twins one spirit in two bodies, good, bad, clothed in the same flesh, inextricably tied.

The SUNN Voicecasts have made you a symbol, one inextricably linked with what happened to your survey crew out there.

Two luggers were sinking, three were burning, and another four were inextricably tangled together.

Gaudy gobs and crimson clots inextricably mixed with tatters of wool and shreds of cotton.

Bert had brought from the actual fight in the Atlantic mixed itself up inextricably with that of the lordly figure of Prince Karl Albert gesturing aside the dead body of the Vaterland sailor.

Everywhere, all over the world, the historian of the early twentieth century finds the same thing, the flow and rearrangement of human affairs inextricably entangled by the old areas, the old prejudices and a sort of heated irascible stupidity, and everywhere congested nations in inconvenient areas, slopping population and produce into each other, annoying each other with tariffs, and every possible commercial vexation, and threatening each other with navies and armies that grew every year more portentous.

He sensed he was behind the enemy now and that if he could just attack to his right then he would be threatening to cut off Loup's grey infantry and the bearskinned grenadiers who were now inextricably mixed together.

He sensed he was behind the enemy now and that if he could just attack to his right then he would be threaten ing to cut off Loup's grey infantry and the bearskinned grenadiers who were now inextricably mixed together.