involuted

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The student was crowned as "Tsinghua's Involuted King", and the idea of involution began trending across China's young generation, resonating especially with millennials born after the 1990s and Gen Z.

From BBC

Parsed into 10 “chapters,” with its swirling rhythms, involuted structure and flights into abstraction, “Time Passes” presents an especial challenge to the pre-post-pandemic brain.

From New York Times

In the memoir, Mr. Adams relates his fascination with fractals — complexly involuted forms that we find buried in the shape of things like trees, coastlines and lightning bolts.

From New York Times

That is to say, their binding element is Katniss Everdeen, a heroine whose virtues are involuted to say the least.

From Slate

They are all lumpy and modest, warped and slumping, involuted like black fungus or comically priapic.

From Los Angeles Times