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
And while it comes with a happy ending, the route it takes is both tortuous and fascinating.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
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
"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
My Jamaican rear gunner and I took a tortuous route over a series of garden walls to avoid the checkpoint on the road.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing tortuous
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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