knotty
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Jenée Desmond-Harris offers advice on untangling this knotty disagreement.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
His last three films before adapting a millennia-old poem were a historical epic about an evacuation operation, a time-travel thriller that’s knotty to the point of confusion and a biopic on a physicist.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 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
When we’d come back to her house smelling like chlorine, I’d asked Cecile if I could use her hot comb to press our hair, seeing how knotty it got.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
The band’s set mixed crisp Vampire Weekend oldies and a few knottier new tunes from its just-released fifth album, “Only God Was Above Us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Some of the knottier, less discussed portions of the debt agreement’s climate role involve some aggressive accounting.
From Slate ● May 30, 2023
Once the low-hanging fruit have been plucked what remains are more obscure concepts, knottier problems, mature markets, dustier corners in the attic of invention.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021
"He is a grand philosopher, and I wot well could explain a much knottier riddle, which we will presently submit to his acumen."
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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
Even through his knottiest lyrics, he’s been trying to convince us that the American Dream is a farce for more than half a century.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020
With less than three months before the voting begins, Ms. Warren has, in some ways, already completed the knottiest leg of her would-be path to the Democratic presidential nomination.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2019
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
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