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byzantine

[biz-uhn-teen, -tahyn, bahy-zuhn-, bih-zan-tin] / ˈbɪz ənˌtin, -ˌtaɪn, ˈbaɪ zən-, bɪˈzæn tɪn /


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He has even chalked up some successes, including a reform of France’s byzantine labor laws.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

But the particularities of the sport outside its elegant, digestible, quadrennial national context were always too byzantine to wrap my head around.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

The winnowing of victims has been the result of byzantine legal procedures, strict vetting and tightened eligibility rules, which victims told ProPublica and the Inquirer took them by surprise.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2026

The layout is byzantine in part because Paramount bought the former rival RKO studio lot from Desilu Productions to create the lot known today.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 2026

A byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations, he said, that he was supposed to enforce “sitting in a bar all night long, which I hated.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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