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

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

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

But she’s a reluctant sleuth in a knotty case with a head full of noise and a shaky hand on the lighter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Dere wuz uh knotty head gal name Mayrella dat useter git mad every time she look at me.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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

I think the issue is much knottier than as you present, but it is a fun parallel to play with and think about.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 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

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

From another angle, it’s a man — so far, always a man — sitting behind a desk as the world’s knottiest problems play on his quirks and insecurities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2017

“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