circuity
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It took almost two more months and some legislative circuity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
That dazzling light is only flickeringly in evidence in this new production of “Ghosts,” which resorts at the end to directorial distractions perhaps to compensate for the faulty circuity of the ensemble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
It appears the tech giant was considering using dynamic image stabilization circuity and motion sensors to counteract sudden movements, so the system can shift on-screen content back to the display’s center whenever there are tremors.
From The Verge ● Apr. 13, 2022
In Chad Beckim’s play of the same name, there’s similar grief and, more important, circuity.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2019
Equity has concurrent jurisdiction in cases where the law recognized the right but did not give adequate relief, or did not give relief without circuity of action or some similar inconvenience.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
I could deal only in circuities and hints.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
He was perpetually encumbered with the rubbish of law, and waded with laborious steps through its endless tautologies, its impertinent circuities, its lying assertions, and hateful artifices.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
I need not dwell upon our doublings and circuities.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
Why be anxious to smooth the way? why deal in apologies, circuities, and innuendoes?
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
The meditations of Constantia, however, could not fail in some of their circuities to encounter the image of Craig.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
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