Gordian
Example Sentences
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If generations of diplomats viewed the post-Soviet challenges of Eastern Europe as a Gordian knot to be painstakingly unraveled, the president envisioned an easy fix: The borders matter less than the business.
Davies have argued, and in political and ideological terms, it's something of a Gordian knot that defies any facile analysis.
From Salon
I applaud The Seattle Times for the illuminating coverage of the Gordian knot of “solving homelessness.”
From Seattle Times
My research group is currently working with Williamson, Carnegie Museum of Natural History mammalogist John Wible and other colleagues on this Gordian knot of phylogeny.
From Scientific American
Such trials face a “Gordian knot of blinding and placebo effects,” neurologist Matthew Burke and psychiatrist Daniel Blumberger of the University of Toronto warned in Nature Medicine in October.
From Science Magazine
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