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intricacy

[in-tri-kuh-see] / ˈɪn trɪ kə si /
NOUN
complication
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STRONG


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But the Houthis had developed a network to track American warplanes with observers, optics and infrared sensors whose intricacy U.S. officials didn’t entirely understand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Under it all, though, is an alluring intricacy in the instrumental ensemble.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

But perhaps the M1 and M4 mirrors best express the level of intricacy and precision required.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2024

A montage of skiers tumbling and toe-gripping a barely raised beam for dear life lent a comical eye to the intricacy of nailing a wolf turn.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2024

But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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