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In that regard, “Bridgerton” chugs deliciously along for at least five episodes before it starts to convolute and collapse on itself.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020

To convolute matters more, the federal government does not require prisons or jails to collect data on pregnancy and childbirth among female inmates.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2020

The suit on the right includes a waist convolute, which allowed the Apollo 15–17 lunar surface crews to sit on the lunar rover.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2013

But these new songs don’t feel arbitrary when they warp or convolute.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2010

Embryo curved or convolute, rarely straight; cotyledons thick and fleshy.—Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite, without stipules, mostly compound.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

The players made their way to the mission, which had the usual slightly convoluted rules that took Winkleman quite a while to explain.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Rom-coms and dance movies are often littered with convoluted circumstances, but “Shake Your Booty!” sabotages the heartfelt story it wants to tell about finding new love and learning to let go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

In such convoluted wars, easy answers were hard to come by.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

From this welter of disorder, Ms. Mandel seamlessly engineers a pair of convoluted, Rube Goldberg-style plots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The streets were as crooked and wayward as country streams, dissecting the city not into square blocks but into convoluted shapes of all sizes.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

He has disobeyed all the "rules," convoluting and twirling the plastic concrete with an insolent skill, and even using that antediluvian material glass block with flair.

From Time Magazine Archive

“A convoluting gray cloud had piled where Mount St. Helens should be,” said Bea.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

The robot held me back as Lhar advanced toward the girls, the skirt-like frill at her base convoluting as she moved.

From Where the World is Quiet by Henry Kuttner

The spectacle of the legal procedure showed how a literate practice ended up convoluting justice.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

Suddenly, I realized that I was in more than any mortal danger; for the convoluting shadows about the ring were taking shape, and the death-hand was forming within the Pentacle.

From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson