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But, all the deductions and loopholes convolutes the system.

Think Progress » Obama on Tea Partiers: “You would think they would be saying, ‘Thank you’” for my tax cuts. 2010

Huh? On the way the plot convolutes itself bringing in Mexican gangsters, stolen cars, USB crucifixes, suspension for the detectives, Parkour and the kitchen sink.

REVIEW: Cop Out « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2010

Semantics convolutes it all, and renders the Rule of Law, the Bill of Rights, Truth or Error, Good or Evil ... they're all impotent in the ugly face of Rationalization?

Police State In Republican Convention City 2008

This new international campaign in Muslim countries convolutes the issue of stoning by the state with honor killing by individual citizens.

Elham Gheytanchi: Iranian Women's Rights: Interview with Soheila Vahdati 2008

But if the goal of comprehensibility, involves the creation of a term that convolutes two distinct cultural, societal and religious outlooks with no regard for their myriad of differences — then surely the Turks deserve the special “Islamo-nazis” definition, since they seem to be only ones with a genocide under their belt.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamofascism: 2007

It subtly convolutes two types of humidity change.

Water Vapor Feedback « Climate Audit 2007

(The following are the properties of the egg and of the convolutes in the carid.)

The History of Animals 2002

At present, and according to the present use of words, any such change would be premature; and we must be content to say, that Mr. Thurtell's benevolence was insufficiently modified by the unprotrusive and unindicated convolutes of the brain, that secrete honesty and common sense.

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

With a system of cables to keep the folds from stretching, convolutes provided a good degree of movement.

The Seattle Times 2010

In addition, a pseudo-religious parable that rears its ugly head in the third act convolutes a clever theme, tossing too much onto an already full plate.

The Trades 2009