byzantine
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Citizens who aren’t likely to notice when their local newspaper becomes a bit more bare-bones, or that the already byzantine healthcare system becomes slightly harder to navigate, will definitely notice when their lunch gets worse.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
But the particularities of the sport outside its elegant, digestible, quadrennial national context were always too byzantine to wrap my head around.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Volkswagen’s byzantine corporate structure, with 1,500 entities and 12 core brands, adds another layer of cost and complexity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
As a parent, I can tell you: Nothing in my life is as byzantine and overheated as soccer development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
A byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations, he said, that he was supposed to enforce “sitting in a bar all night long, which I hated.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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