knotty
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If bond yields are in a secular, multidecade uptrend, as seems likely, investors face two knotty problems.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
The BBC's own review noted that there was a disconnect between the "muscular" songs and the "existential crisis" of Styles' lyrics, concluding: "As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty."
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
It’ll go down with knotty LPs by Tori Amos and Fiona Apple that contort classical traditions to tangled, personal ends, and this track sums up her mission beautifully.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
But she’s a reluctant sleuth in a knotty case with a head full of noise and a shaky hand on the lighter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Modeling flight at transonic speeds was a particularly knotty problem, because of the subsonic and supersonic winds that passed over the plane or model simultaneously.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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