knotty

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Of course, as with any knotty academic question, there are anomalies.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

It’s the latest in a series of knotty characters embraced by Arquette, 57.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

Listen to his tightly harmonized vocals in “Send It On” or to the gorgeously murky electric piano in “One Mo’Gin” or to the knotty percussive crosstalk in “Sugah Daddy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

What constitutes romance is different for everyone, and when you get to the matter of love itself, issues become even more knotty.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

‘Stay there please,’ he said, ‘and no chittering. I is needing to listen only to silence when I is mixing up such a knotty plexicated dream as this.’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl