byzantine
Example Sentences
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But the particularities of the sport outside its elegant, digestible, quadrennial national context were always too byzantine to wrap my head around.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
As a parent, I can tell you: Nothing in my life is as byzantine and overheated as soccer development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Biotech research exists in its own byzantine world where scientific rigor marries startup energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Zar, who has spent more than a decade serving on and founding volunteer organizations and task forces in Pacific Palisades, said she was well accustomed to byzantine government processes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025
A byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations, he said, that he was supposed to enforce “sitting in a bar all night long, which I hated.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
