as in weaved
to twist together into a usually confused mass
the extension cords were hopelessly knotted together
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Recent Examples of knotted
Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
Cooking them properly is hard, as the ends often get too soft by the time the knotted center is done.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
With the match knotted 1-1 in the 84th minute, Messi took a ball at the top of the box and delivered one of his signature individual efforts to put Miami ahead for good.
—Reuters, 17 Aug. 2025
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Verb
The knotted fabric straps have an elevated look, making these cute enough to wear with your favorite sundresses and skirts.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
Cooking them properly is hard, as the ends often get too soft by the time the knotted center is done.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
Adjective
Sixteen of the next 17 batters went down without reaching safely before Freddie Freeman knotted the score with a solo shot.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
With the match knotted 1-1 in the 84th minute, Messi took a ball at the top of the box and delivered one of his signature individual efforts to put Miami ahead for good.
—Reuters, 17 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knotted
Verb
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True moral dilemmas, which become tangled, in ways that seem impossible to unravel, with his private life.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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Many upright vacuums have nonretractable cords that can become tangled or damaged during use.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The Partisan president acknowledges that, as ever at a record label, the album was discussed in those knotty terms of art and commerce.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
26 Aug. 2025
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The knotty matter of Peacemaker‘s place in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new, Justice League-less DCU was addressed even before Thursday’s Season 2 premiere actually got underway, through the use some editing sleight-of-hand.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Over the course of three days, the rescue team worked to cut away the snarled ropes, with video capturing their approach to the whale in a small boat.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Most of the surface is made up of a fine dust with jagged edges because it hasn’t been weathered by wind or water.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Against all of this allegedly heady stuff, the score—by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross—intentionally jars us from encroaching drowsiness with chortling woodwinds and shardlike piano chords that are the aural equivalent of jagged Plexiglass off-cuts.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In communities without clean water, families often burn wood to boil contaminated water, contributing to both deforestation and emissions.—
Sivan Yaari,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Great Lakes Legacy Act — which aims to address areas of concern in the basin where longtime industrial contamination has caused environmental degradation — has funded 34 remediation projects across the region since 2004, removing or capping almost 7 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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For her, the loss of $40 isn’t the real issue, but rather the broken trust and the strange turn the situation has taken.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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As the family unravels, Genevieve must summon the courage to save her broken family – and herself – but not without a cost.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The stunning Spiaggia di Frontone, a pebbly crescent of clear water framed by rocks, is easily reached by taxi boat from the port.—
Nicky Swallow,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Gateway — the Artemis program's pitstop space station in lunar orbit — has had a bumpy path inside the program's architecture.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Cal picks her up in a muddy old 4×4, then takes her on a bumpy ride through the bush during which the tension quickly heightens between them.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Knotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knotted. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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