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Above all, Swanberg is interested in one strand of this knotty dilemma: how an ex turns from trash to treasure the minute someone else claims them from the dumpster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Jenée Desmond-Harris offers advice on untangling this knotty disagreement.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

His last three films before adapting a millennia-old poem were a historical epic about an evacuation operation, a time-travel thriller that’s knotty to the point of confusion and a biopic on a physicist.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

But for those with an ear for knotty structures that sometimes feel like puzzle pieces, taking in the whole of the record is rewarding, even fun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

The floor was made of solid wooden planks, old and knotty.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Ultimately the vibe of “The Outrun” is closer to meandering travelogue than the knottier healing drama we were hoping for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024

Engineers say Copilot saves them hundreds of hours a month by handling tedious and repetitive tasks, affording them time to focus on knottier challenges.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

Negotiators shuttled between the Houthis and the Yemeni government, framing it as a way to prevent a spill while punting on the knottier questions about what to do with the oil.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

To understand why this is a knottier issue than it seems at first glance, we must take a look at history.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2021

The difficulty had not yielded, at all, when he met his father with it; he thought it had only grown tougher and knottier; and he hardly knew how to present it.

From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells

This massive achievement solves one of the knottiest problems in biology, and it won the AI’s creators a $3-million Breakthrough Prize.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2022

Even through his knottiest lyrics, he’s been trying to convince us that the American Dream is a farce for more than half a century.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020

The chewiest, knottiest song here is the title track, which concludes the album, a six-minute meditation that feels designed, after a half-hour of reckoning, to be inconclusive.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

The morning’s knottiest exhortation came from Ma Catalina Vázquez Pérez, 51, who had woken at 5am hoping Amlo could get her son and her son-in-law out of jail.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2018

“As Agatha Swanburne once remarked, ‘Patience can untangle the knottiest shoelace, but so can a pair of scissors,’” she announced.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood