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convoluted

[kon-vuh-loo-tid] / ˈkɒn vəˌlu tɪd /


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Concerns about the profitability of artificial-intelligence ventures, convoluted debt deals underpinning data centers, and the future of chip demand had left some on Wall Street worried that the AI trade was petering out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

After all, I’d never lay myself off, push any convoluted apps down my own throat, replace me with AI or let students use chatbots to supplant themselves.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

This opinion was supported by David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter, external, who wrote that the film "chugs along satisfyingly even with the occasional patch of sluggishness and the usual overly convoluted plot contortions".

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Meanwhile, thousands more are waiting in county jails for cases that are winding through a new, convoluted and confusing system where geography controls the rules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Other passages were so full of confusing, convoluted words that she ground her teeth at her own uselessness and skipped to something simpler.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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