convolute

Example Sentences

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How barmy is it to fly thousands of people half-way around the world to sit in giant air-conditioned tents to argue about commas, and interpretations of convoluted words?

From BBC

Our reviewer, Steven Poole, wrote that “the book proceeds like a convoluted murder mystery, introducing one suspect after another in what seems like an open-and-shut case, before puncturing the promising narrative with an inconvenient fact.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Police officers who are already as confused as the rest of us by convoluted federal immigration laws?

From Washington Post

The story loses focus as it detours through a convoluted plot about a passion play, and farcical moments, like a shining crotch, undercut its sinister edges.

From New York Times

The important property is that Bell's inequalities hold for all classical theories one can think of, no matter how convoluted.

From Scientific American