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gnarled

[nahrld] / nɑrld /


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Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a tree covered in gnarled scars, with an accumulation of rocks surrounding its base.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

With Richards’s gnarled, withering guitar lines and Jagger drawling and declaiming, there’s no mistaking the band behind “Foreign Tongues.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Still, Harper and Yasmin’s existences are inextricably linked, gnarled together in a helix of favors and bargains.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

They have no gnarled sporting director, they don't have a brains-trust that a club like Celtic should have.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

He’d pull the blanket to my chin, and I’d run my fingers down his gnarled knuckles and listen to stories about his job when he first came to America.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio




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