knotty
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The genre’s vibrant, knotty history of set the scene for the musical-dance production of “Freestyle: A Love Story,” of which Torres is a co-producer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Even more knotty is the question of how the Senate should approach openings among the 179 judges in the federal courts of appeal and the 677 district court judges.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
Last fall, the 34-year-old released Lux, a knotty, baroque album recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra that contains lyrics in more than a dozen languages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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
As we were passing by a gnarled, knotty tree, Hamlet plucked an apple and showed me the fruit streaked with red and gold like a sunset.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
The band’s set mixed crisp Vampire Weekend oldies and a few knottier new tunes from its just-released fifth album, “Only God Was Above Us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 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
Some of the knottier, less discussed portions of the debt agreement’s climate role involve some aggressive accounting.
From Slate ● May 30, 2023
"A problem all the knottier, I suspect," began Whittaker— "Didn't I tell you?" interrupted Father Riley.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
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
But the knottiest financial enigma involves Mr. Epstein’s relationship with Mr. Wexner, the chief executive of the apparel conglomerate L Brands, who for years entrusted Mr. Epstein with his financial life.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2019
Deep in the knottiest verse of “Kung Fu,” Cordae astutely notes, “My future’s a tad bright.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018
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
After a long pause, Hermione voiced the knottiest question of all in a hesitant voice.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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