labyrinthine
adjective
lab·y·rin·thine
ˌla-bə-ˈrin(t)-thən 
-ˈrin-ˌthīn
-ˌthēn
-ˈrin-ˌthīn
-ˌthēn
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labyrinthine politics that left us totally befuddled
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In mid-2021, after a solid decade of navigating the labyrinthine American visa system, my wife and I moved to the United States.
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Jack Barlow, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
In this harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece, Rivera Garza ultimately goes one step further, unsettlingly implicating readers themselves.
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But by stripping the story down to its core elements — supernatural powers, madness, claustrophobia — Kubrick opened viewers’ minds to a treasure trove of possible interpretations, many of which were compiled in the wonderfully labyrinthine documentary Room 237.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
In the 1986 video game Metroid, players were given a novel amount of freedom, navigating a labyrinthine alien landscape by proceeding in any direction.
—Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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Jack Barlow, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
In this harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece, Rivera Garza ultimately goes one step further, unsettlingly implicating readers themselves.
—Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
But by stripping the story down to its core elements — supernatural powers, madness, claustrophobia — Kubrick opened viewers’ minds to a treasure trove of possible interpretations, many of which were compiled in the wonderfully labyrinthine documentary Room 237.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
In the 1986 video game Metroid, players were given a novel amount of freedom, navigating a labyrinthine alien landscape by proceeding in any direction.
—Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Labyrinthine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labyrinthine. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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labyrinthine
adjective
lab·y·rin·thine
-ˈrin(t)-thən; -ˈrin-ˌthīn
-ˌthēn
-ˌthēn
: of, relating to, affecting, or originating in the inner ear
human labyrinthine lesions
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