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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

But for those with an ear for knotty structures that sometimes feel like puzzle pieces, taking in the whole of the record is rewarding, even fun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 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

‘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

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

Then he proceeded to rack his brains with a new and knottier problem than any which he had yet encountered.

From The Voice on the Wire by Eustace Hale Ball

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

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

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