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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

After decades of acquisitions under empire-building bosses who touted the benefits of scale, Volkswagen is both a carmaker itself and a holding entity for other brands—a much more knotty setup than at its global peers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The BBC's own review noted that there was a disconnect between the "muscular" songs and the "existential crisis" of Styles' lyrics, concluding: "As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty."

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

Cady ran her fingers over the knotty red flowers stitched into it.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

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

Some of the knottier, less discussed portions of the debt agreement’s climate role involve some aggressive accounting.

From Slate ● May 30, 2023

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

"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

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

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

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