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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

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 a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

It’ll go down with knotty LPs by Tori Amos and Fiona Apple that contort classical traditions to tangled, personal ends, and this track sums up her mission beautifully.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 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

It’s also a knottier one than the others.

From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2025

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

"He is a grand philosopher, and I wot well could explain a much knottier riddle, which we will presently submit to his acumen."

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

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

Gordon’s characters tend to be tough on themselves, convinced that diligent thinking and rethinking can untangle the knottiest problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2020

With less than three months before the voting begins, Ms. Warren has, in some ways, already completed the knottiest leg of her would-be path to the Democratic presidential nomination.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2019

Deep in the knottiest verse of “Kung Fu,” Cordae astutely notes, “My future’s a tad bright.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 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