convoluted
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Their stories are sometimes convoluted, but at bottom they boil down to the same three elements: salt, wind and water.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Even in the film’s most convoluted moments, there’s a fire of dissent percolating just beneath its surface.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
But OpenAI's ability to keep raising the capital needed to operate is hamstrung by its convoluted governance structure -- in which a nonprofit board retains ultimate control over a for-profit arm.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Beyond that, there are 'zero kilowatt zones', 'power-limited periods' and a series of other intricacies that many in F1 believe have made the rules far too convoluted.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Other passages were so full of confusing, convoluted words that she ground her teeth at her own uselessness and skipped to something simpler.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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