tortuous
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He expects to feel a sense of freedom that always eluded him during his lengthy and often tortuous quest to land the famous green jacket.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 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
Gelman’s examples include a claim offered in the book “Freakonomics” that “beautiful parents are 36% more likely to have girl babies,” derived from a tortuous calculation by a British statistician.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
That may, of course, be Mr. Joseph’s point: We are as confounded by the tortuous vagaries of their painful histories, and by their stubborn inability to connect, as they themselves are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Civilizations would take billions of years of tortuous evolution to arise, and then snuff themselves out in an instant of unforgivable neglect.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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