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intricacy

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


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But the Houthis had developed a network to track American warplanes with observers, optics and infrared sensors whose intricacy U.S. officials didn’t entirely understand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Her drawings, which come in sets of two or three near-identical shapes, have "a beautiful intricacy to them" and "look like swirling vortexes", he said.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

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 behind the curtain, from what I’ve seen, there is no intricacy.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2025

Redd gestured at the intricacy of Mapper’s sketch.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older




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