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intricacy

[in-tri-kuh-see] / ˈɪn trɪ kə si /
NOUN
complication
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STRONG


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The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Concrete was the logical and obvious solution, but to pour concrete into the proper shapes required wooden molds, which in this case meant shapes of sculptural intricacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Julianne Moore, on the other hand, brings a less polished intricacy to her roles.

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

A convent girl with a creepy streak, Elizabeth sees beauty in biology, leaning over a corpse’s flayed back to appreciate the intricacy of its ventricles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"This work opens a new direction to explore further the intricacies of the connection between the supermassive black holes trillions of miles from where we are to how we came to be here."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

"But a blanket hard-and-fast rule isn't helpful, because it doesn't really allow for the intricacies and the individualisation of what's really going on."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The complex intricacies of language manifested on Eimbcke’s first bilingual set.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

“There’s a cognitive dissonance between the intricacies of these deals and the actual amount of water that is in storage,” said Sarah Porter, director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

She learned how to control the light and the camera to get the effects she wanted, like a musician learning the intricacies of an instrument.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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