knotty

After decades of acquisitions under empire-building bosses who touted the benefits of scale, Volkswagen is both a carmaker itself and a holding entity for other brands—a much more knotty setup than at its global peers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

Listen to his tightly harmonized vocals in “Send It On” or to the gorgeously murky electric piano in “One Mo’Gin” or to the knotty percussive crosstalk in “Sugah Daddy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

The child in her body hung from her lean loins like a knotty fruit and from her face every particle of flesh was gone, so that the jagged bones stood forth rock-like under her skin.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

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

To understand why this is a knottier issue than it seems at first glance, we must take a look at history.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2021

"A problem all the knottier, I suspect," began Whittaker— "Didn't I tell you?" interrupted Father Riley.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon

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

But the knottiest financial enigma involves Mr. Epstein’s relationship with Mr. Wexner, the chief executive of the apparel conglomerate L Brands, who for years entrusted Mr. Epstein with his financial life.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 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