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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

At the moment, groundbreaking AI bots—when they aren’t actively plotting civilization’s demise—are composing elaborate symphonies and solving knotty, generations-old math problems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

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

Ivy wondered, curled under a knotty blanket given to her by the gnomes.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

Later the Picasso inheritance grew knottier, with feminist historians and scholars of African and Oceanic art revealing the oversights and injuries of his omnivorous visual appetite.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

And this is the knottier grimness beneath the ever-present dread written into the 1996 mystery asking how these young women fell from collaboration, real girl power, to devouring each other.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2022

"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

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

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

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