involuted

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Yet Peterson has written not just a teasingly intellectual, delightfully involuted observation, but a critique of the way that we tend to observe.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2016

The eldest boy, Ratan—Moni’s father—and my grandmother had shared the adjacent room, but, as Jagu’s mind involuted into madness, she had moved Ratan out with his brothers and taken Jagu in.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2016

It’s so involuted the way people use those things.

From Forbes • Sep. 9, 2014

Animal studies have shown that transplanted thymic grafts between inbred strains of mice involuted according to the age of the donor and not of the recipient, implying the process is genetically programmed.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The eldest boy, Ratan—Moni’s father—and my grandmother had shared the adjacent room, but as Jagu’s mind had involuted into madness, she had moved Ratan out with his brothers and taken Jagu in.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee