How to Use convolution in a Sentence

convolution

noun

• I found it hard to follow the convolutions of the book's plot.
• 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
• It’s hard to keep up with the convolutions of the Brexit debate in Britain.
  — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 12 May 2018
• There is more talk about the world and its convolutions than ever before.
  — Michael Wolff, Town & Country, 20 May 2013
• There are many more convolutions to the predicted end of the world, which the Express outlines in confusing and befuddling detail.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
• 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
• MiB: International at least avoids the dizzying time-travel convolutions that marred the third installment in this franchise, plus there are a number of amusing callbacks to the prior films.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• Even without that doomsday outcome, rewriting contracts that refer to Libor is fraught with byzantine convolutions.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2019
• 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
• Each convolution captured different essential features of the image, such as edges.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• But the demand for and mere existence of private companies whose sole mission is to help veterans navigate the process underscores the complexity, convolution, and dysfunction of the VA system.
  — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• This essence of choice and ambiguity and convolution is what Sondheim gave to theater—the idea that there’s infinitely more contained within the tragicomedy of human experience than can ever be set to music and sung on a stage.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• And the convolution of metrics such as the SDGs and new realms of sustainability such as regeneration and circularity further muddy impact storytelling.
  — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Hamparian categorized denial in the United States and Turkey as a sophisticated convolution of facts, strengthened by economic ties.
  — Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 26 Apr. 2017
• 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
• When the association finally triumphed last month — with the caps’ permanent dissolution — a saga marked by legislative twists and convolutions, procrastination and budgeting witchcraft finally came to an end.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Bold, snicker-out-loud funny, magnetic and unsettling through its power-struggle convolutions, this production musically and dramatically fills the company’s looming proscenium.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
• Each NeuronCore implements a high-performance systolic array matrix multiply engine, which massively speeds up typical deep learning operations such as convolution and transformers.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2020
• The very nature of a comprehensive chronicle of large-scale geographic, political, financial, religious and lineal conniving and convolution is necessarily complicated and dry, whether as history or counterhistory.
  — New York Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• But never fear: After some pointless convolutions, all three women do eventually go to Lourdes, as does Chrissie, for reasons never clear.
  — Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024