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- adjective
superlative form ofknotty : mostknotty .
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Examples
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Now he had arrived at one of the "knottiest" points of the whole performance.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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And as for Jamie Elkins, part of the Common Cents Consulting team, we could not have worked our way out of some of the knottiest compliance and accounting issues without her.
Pat Waak Will Not Seek Reelection As Colorado Democratic Party Chair Ethan Axelrod 2011
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One key to solving the knottiest problem of the debt ceiling could prove to be an idea that Mr. McConnell himself hatched a few weeks ago.
McConnell Likely Holds Key to Deal John D. McKinnon 2011
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In an elegant narrative Ms. Wertheim has taken on one of the knottiest conundrums in the philosophy of science, the demarcation problem—that is, how to find criteria to define the boundary between science and pseudoscience.
On the Margins of Science Michael Shermer 2011
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Social security is at its knottiest where one piece of the safety net gets entangled with another, so there is real logic in weaving overlapping elements into a seamless whole.
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Focus on the knottiest problems about how to share custody in a way that benefits the child.
Tara Fass: The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Kids Post-Split Tara Fass 2011
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And as for Jamie Elkins, part of the Common Cents Consulting team, we could not have worked our way out of some of the knottiest compliance and accounting issues without her.
Pat Waak Will Not Seek Reelection As Colorado Democratic Party Chair Ethan Axelrod 2011
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Focus on the knottiest problems about how to share custody in a way that benefits the child.
Tara Fass: The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Kids Post-Split Tara Fass 2011
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Business school faculty and students are applying their management skills to one of the world's knottiest problems: climate change.
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Over the decades, as America evolved -- as slavery was prohibited and the Civil War was fought, and as the New Deal swept through the country -- our constitutional values, like a vine, wrapped around the knottiest ethnic and historical features of our landscape.
Mike Signer: Vision of a State: Ultra-Federalism in Afghanistan 2010
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