How to Use convolution in a Sentence

convolution

noun

• I found it hard to follow the convolutions of the book's plot.
• There is more talk about the world and its convolutions than ever before.
  — Michael Wolff, Town & Country, 20 May 2013
• To run a convolution, data converts into laser light on the chip.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
• That’s where the confusion and the convolution goes.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Monster’s contrivances and convolutions didn’t all work for me, but the scenes the boys share in the final third are magical.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
• Sure, by the end of the episode, the convolutions have begun to accumulate, but that just goes with the territory.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
• This has made for a lot of convolution but also for a lot of great music that can still be black without disavowing life’s fundamental worth.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2025
• The stakes are higher than ever, and most refreshingly of all, the convolution levels are very manageable right now.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025
• The wildest example of this meta-narrative convolution comes during the Season 1 recap that plays at the start of the episode.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
• The resulting structure, unlike a smooth seawall, is replete with nooks, crannies, and convolutions.
  — Saqib Rahim, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2024
• Laser light and microscopic lenses then carry out convolutions faster and with lower energy needs.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
• Too long to weed through red herrings and convolutions in the mystery that eventually border on irrelevant.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
• Each convolution captured different essential features of the image, such as edges.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• Tax experts are well-versed in navigating the tax code’s convolutions and can offer personalized guidance.
  — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2025
• Even without that doomsday outcome, rewriting contracts that refer to Libor is fraught with byzantine convolutions.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2019
• But a convolution of religious beliefs not based on biblical norms but used to fit a person’s own biased agenda is certainly foremost of the causes.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2025
• That’s fitting enough; you’re meant to feel the noose tighten around each character’s neck in turn, though sometimes the tension slackens and the story threatens to collapse under the weight of its many convolutions.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• But the plot, though refreshingly free of the convolution and digital clutter that marred several other recent blockbusters, is pretty standard stuff.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 Aug. 2021
• Add a dizzying array of narrative convolutions, coincidences and contrivances and the movie becomes a lot to carry, especially when the tone is supposed to be feather-light.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• The best detective stories often aren’t easy to follow, taking convolutions and leaving narrative dead-ends lying around, but many of Honey Don’t!
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 23 May 2025
• The convolution of melamine foam wedges is configured to absorb sounds that originate within the room — like notes from Taylor’s flute — and prevent them from reverberating or echoing.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2017
• Instead of excessive fastidiousness and convolution, the mood is one of generosity, ease, and serenity.
  — Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 5 Dec. 2024
• The plot veers through various sidetracking convolutions and there is more exposition than necessary tied to supplementary characters.
  — Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2025
• The team turned their model loose on the series of treelike modifications and convolutions in the Indo-European family of languages.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
• Could the show have gotten away without the convolutions required to make Aaron an actual jailhouse lawyer, when Wright only got his degree and passed the bar after ending his incarceration?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
• The text of the questions is clear and respectful, with no strategy of manipulation by convolution or flattery demeaning to a person as judicious, intelligent, and good-looking as me.
  — David Hajdu, The New Yorker, 26 June 2021
• Conventional deep learning algorithms for video recognition perform a 3D operation (known as a convolution) on multiple video frames at once.
  — Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
• None of this complexity or convolution would be required if the commission’s mandate was merely to draw Michigan’s legislative districts in a fair-minded, neutral and nonpartisan manner.
  — Stephen Markman, WSJ, 25 June 2021
• Today, one of the most popular digital techniques is called convolution reverb, which uses recordings of the acoustics of real spaces to produce highly realistic simulations of those spaces.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• For every placement of the kernel, the network would perform a complicated mathematical calculation called a convolution that looked for distinguishing features.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 8 June 2023