knotty
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Last fall, the 34-year-old released Lux, a knotty, baroque album recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra that contains lyrics in more than a dozen languages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Jenée Desmond-Harris offers advice on untangling this knotty disagreement.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
His last three films before adapting a millennia-old poem were a historical epic about an evacuation operation, a time-travel thriller that’s knotty to the point of confusion and a biopic on a physicist.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Xan folded her knotty hands together and pressed them to her mouth.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
Engineers say Copilot saves them hundreds of hours a month by handling tedious and repetitive tasks, affording them time to focus on knottier challenges.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
The band’s set mixed crisp Vampire Weekend oldies and a few knottier new tunes from its just-released fifth album, “Only God Was Above Us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
And this is the knottier grimness beneath the ever-present dread written into the 1996 mystery asking how these young women fell from collaboration, real girl power, to devouring each other.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2022
To understand why this is a knottier issue than it seems at first glance, we must take a look at history.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2021
Then he proceeded to rack his brains with a new and knottier problem than any which he had yet encountered.
From The Voice on the Wire by Eustace Hale Ball
This massive achievement solves one of the knottiest problems in biology, and it won the AI’s creators a $3-million Breakthrough Prize.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2022
Some of the knottiest complications get relegated to Sohn’s epilogue, where she offers capsule summaries of what happened to her role models after their encounters with Comstock.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
Gordon’s characters tend to be tough on themselves, convinced that diligent thinking and rethinking can untangle the knottiest problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2020
Even through his knottiest lyrics, he’s been trying to convince us that the American Dream is a farce for more than half a century.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020
“As Agatha Swanburne once remarked, ‘Patience can untangle the knottiest shoelace, but so can a pair of scissors,’” she announced.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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