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In that regard, “Bridgerton” chugs deliciously along for at least five episodes before it starts to convolute and collapse on itself.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020

To convolute matters more, the federal government does not require prisons or jails to collect data on pregnancy and childbirth among female inmates.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2020

The suit on the right includes a waist convolute, which allowed the Apollo 15–17 lunar surface crews to sit on the lunar rover.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2013

But these new songs don’t feel arbitrary when they warp or convolute.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2010

Corolla 5-parted, wheel-shaped, sometimes reflexed-spreading; the lobes convolute in the bud.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Yet even with an ideal cast and in a more congenial theater, the play would feel diffuse and somewhat convoluted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The players made their way to the mission, which had the usual slightly convoluted rules that took Winkleman quite a while to explain.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Rom-coms and dance movies are often littered with convoluted circumstances, but “Shake Your Booty!” sabotages the heartfelt story it wants to tell about finding new love and learning to let go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The solution is a shell-company tax that scales up based on how convoluted an organization is.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

At that moment Fang looked like he could barely slide off the couch let alone come up with some convoluted lie to amuse a friend.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

He has disobeyed all the "rules," convoluting and twirling the plastic concrete with an insolent skill, and even using that antediluvian material glass block with flair.

From Time Magazine Archive

“A convoluting gray cloud had piled where Mount St. Helens should be,” said Bea.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Before them rose the fantastic, twisting, convoluting, turning spires of a tall, marvelous, glittering city.

From Collector's Item by Evelyn E. Smith

The robot held me back as Lhar advanced toward the girls, the skirt-like frill at her base convoluting as she moved.

From Where the World is Quiet by Henry Kuttner

The spectacle of the legal procedure showed how a literate practice ended up convoluting justice.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin