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labyrinthine

[lab-uh-rin-thin, -theen] / ˌlæb əˈrɪn θɪn, -θin /


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It requires a labyrinthine permitting process any time a “major emitting facility” is built, requiring air-quality modeling and public hearings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Driving the growth in marine traffic is a widespread idea that the Northwest Passage—a labyrinthine network of straits and channels connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic—will soon become a sustainable freight thoroughfare.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

For now, the mood is exuberant at Renate, a labyrinthine club with multiple DJs housed in a dimly-lit complex near the Spree river, a Berlin institution which recently celebrated its 18th birthday.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Perhaps the grandest home in the area is the modern labyrinthine underground dwelling of one of the country's best-known businessmen - Khodr Taher Bin Ali, better known as Abu Ali Khodr.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2024

Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson’s famously elusive mind.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis