tortuous

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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

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

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

This tortuous relationship was tested at least once before.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2025

She woke early, sometimes even before Papi, cooked the beans and rice for our supper, ironed our school uniforms and her work clothes, and bathed, powdered, and stuffed herself into her tortuous undergarments.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago