knotty
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Of course, as with any knotty academic question, there are anomalies.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
Questions around pediatric use, Ms. Donnellan recognizes, are knotty: How do we balance the “significant health damage” caused by excess weight in childhood with the risks of committing children to long-term drug therapy?
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
It’s the latest in a series of knotty characters embraced by Arquette, 57.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
There’s a comprehensiveness to how “We Are Guardians” lays out a big, knotty problem of environment, politics, geography and business — internationalized yet hyper-local — while spotlighting the Indigenous push-back efforts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 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
Vocabulary lists containing knotty
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The BFG
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