byzantine
Example Sentences
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Zar, who has spent more than a decade serving on and founding volunteer organizations and task forces in Pacific Palisades, said she was well accustomed to byzantine government processes.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2025
In its whimsically byzantine rules, the king of hearts is dubbed Heart the Lover, and the game’s secret language accompanies the trio through their lives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
But the insider experience at Lumon is byzantine in other ways.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
He’s kept the club a consistent winner despite a constant roster churn caused by the MLS salary cap and other byzantine rules and a payroll that has never ranked higher than fourth in the league.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2024
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
