knotty

Above all, Swanberg is interested in one strand of this knotty dilemma: how an ex turns from trash to treasure the minute someone else claims them from the dumpster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Jenée Desmond-Harris offers advice on untangling this knotty disagreement.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

Hardcore fans of Nolan’s knotty, grand-scale films are at the apex of this market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

As we were passing by a gnarled, knotty tree, Hamlet plucked an apple and showed me the fruit streaked with red and gold like a sunset.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Ultimately the vibe of “The Outrun” is closer to meandering travelogue than the knottier healing drama we were hoping for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024

Engineers say Copilot saves them hundreds of hours a month by handling tedious and repetitive tasks, affording them time to focus on knottier challenges.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

Some of the knottier, less discussed portions of the debt agreement’s climate role involve some aggressive accounting.

From Slate ● May 30, 2023

And this is the knottier grimness beneath the ever-present dread written into the 1996 mystery asking how these young women fell from collaboration, real girl power, to devouring each other.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2022

Then he proceeded to rack his brains with a new and knottier problem than any which he had yet encountered.

From The Voice on the Wire by Eustace Hale Ball

This massive achievement solves one of the knottiest problems in biology, and it won the AI’s creators a $3-million Breakthrough Prize.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2022

The chewiest, knottiest song here is the title track, which concludes the album, a six-minute meditation that feels designed, after a half-hour of reckoning, to be inconclusive.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

Deep in the knottiest verse of “Kung Fu,” Cordae astutely notes, “My future’s a tad bright.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

The morning’s knottiest exhortation came from Ma Catalina Vázquez Pérez, 51, who had woken at 5am hoping Amlo could get her son and her son-in-law out of jail.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2018

After a long pause, Hermione voiced the knottiest question of all in a hesitant voice.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling