convolute
Example Sentences
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How barmy is it to fly thousands of people half-way around the world to sit in giant air-conditioned tents to argue about commas, and interpretations of convoluted words?
From BBC
Our reviewer, Steven Poole, wrote that “the book proceeds like a convoluted murder mystery, introducing one suspect after another in what seems like an open-and-shut case, before puncturing the promising narrative with an inconvenient fact.”
The important property is that Bell's inequalities hold for all classical theories one can think of, no matter how convoluted.
From Scientific American
The story in Ohio is somewhat convoluted, as legislative and parliamentary processes often are.
From Washington Post
“It comes off as disingenuous, convoluted, and at the end of the day, it really chases away voters.”
From New York Times
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