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
Of course, as with any knotty academic question, there are anomalies.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Dere wuz uh knotty head gal name Mayrella dat useter git mad every time she look at me.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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
Negotiators shuttled between the Houthis and the Yemeni government, framing it as a way to prevent a spill while punting on the knottier questions about what to do with the oil.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023
I think the issue is much knottier than as you present, but it is a fun parallel to play with and think about.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2021
The difficulty had not yielded, at all, when he met his father with it; he thought it had only grown tougher and knottier; and he hardly knew how to present it.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
Perhaps the starkest, knottiest contemporary depiction of nuns is the playwright John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt: A Parable.”
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
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
Gordon’s characters tend to be tough on themselves, convinced that diligent thinking and rethinking can untangle the knottiest problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2020
Deep in the knottiest verse of “Kung Fu,” Cordae astutely notes, “My future’s a tad bright.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018
“As Agatha Swanburne once remarked, ‘Patience can untangle the knottiest shoelace, but so can a pair of scissors,’” she announced.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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