tortuous
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But Maddinson's return, almost 10 years after the last of his previous three Tests, was tortuous.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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
"Yes," was the unequivocal reply when asked if this was one of the 'most satisfying' wins of his, at times, tortuous 13 months in charge.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
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
The next day, after his garbage run, O’Dell borrowed his dad’s truck and he and Sherman and I went up the tortuous trail to one of the big fans that drove air through the mines.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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