tortuous
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The tortuous effort to build that cable is the subject of James Tabor’s “Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The modern-day Gunners now stand nine games from ending that tortuous wait for glory, five points ahead of Manchester City, who have a game in hand.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
After a tortuous and contested process, a federal judge endorsed a roughly $6 billion bid by Amber.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Which was tortuous because I’m like, “How do I recreate this thing that I didn’t even fully make myself?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025
My course, which for a while had looked so clear and hopeful, seemed likely to become as tortuous and beset with secrets as it had been in Ehrenrang.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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