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If bond yields are in a secular, multidecade uptrend, as seems likely, investors face two knotty problems.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

The BBC's own review noted that there was a disconnect between the "muscular" songs and the "existential crisis" of Styles' lyrics, concluding: "As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty."

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

It’ll go down with knotty LPs by Tori Amos and Fiona Apple that contort classical traditions to tangled, personal ends, and this track sums up her mission beautifully.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

But she’s a reluctant sleuth in a knotty case with a head full of noise and a shaky hand on the lighter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Beside him, Jigo nodded and rubbed his hip with his knotty old hands.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

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

Later the Picasso inheritance grew knottier, with feminist historians and scholars of African and Oceanic art revealing the oversights and injuries of his omnivorous visual appetite.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

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 Ball, Eustace Hale

Perhaps the starkest, knottiest contemporary depiction of nuns is the playwright John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt: A Parable.”

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

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

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

Deep in the knottiest verse of “Kung Fu,” Cordae astutely notes, “My future’s a tad bright.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

After a long pause, Hermione voiced the knottiest question of all in a hesitant voice.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling