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Above all, Swanberg is interested in one strand of this knotty dilemma: how an ex turns from trash to treasure the minute someone else claims them from the dumpster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Jenée Desmond-Harris offers advice on untangling this knotty disagreement.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

After decades of acquisitions under empire-building bosses who touted the benefits of scale, Volkswagen is both a carmaker itself and a holding entity for other brands—a much more knotty setup than at its global peers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

His skin seemed so pale against the dark, knotty wood.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

It’s also a knottier one than the others.

From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2025

Ultimately the vibe of “The Outrun” is closer to meandering travelogue than the knottier healing drama we were hoping for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024

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

Negotiators shuttled between the Houthis and the Yemeni government, framing it as a way to prevent a spill while punting on the knottier questions about what to do with the oil.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

They beat up a little game peradventure—and leave it to knottier heads, more robust constitutions, to run it down.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

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

But the knottiest financial enigma involves Mr. Epstein’s relationship with Mr. Wexner, the chief executive of the apparel conglomerate L Brands, who for years entrusted Mr. Epstein with his financial life.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2019

The morning’s knottiest exhortation came from Ma Catalina Vázquez Pérez, 51, who had woken at 5am hoping Amlo could get her son and her son-in-law out of jail.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2018

From another angle, it’s a man — so far, always a man — sitting behind a desk as the world’s knottiest problems play on his quirks and insecurities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2017

“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