knotty
Example Sentences
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As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
What Thompson-Hernández’s art so easily dispels, no matter the genre it finds a home in, are all the knotty, misguided and trite representations of otherness in our contemporary world.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026
Of course, as with any knotty academic question, there are anomalies.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
Questions around pediatric use, Ms. Donnellan recognizes, are knotty: How do we balance the “significant health damage” caused by excess weight in childhood with the risks of committing children to long-term drug therapy?
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The feet were extraordinarily small, the ankles were still slender, and, perhaps most remarkable, the calves were still firm and evidently never had been knotty.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing knotty
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