Meaning & use
Inextricable
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Impossible to disentangle, escape from, or separate into parts.
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The two companies' finances had become inextricable after years of shared investments.
He found himself in an inextricable web of lies.
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From Latin inextricabilis, formed from in- ("not") and extricare ("to disentangle"), the same root that gives us extricate.
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