spaghetti bowl
n.— «The intersection of religion and state has become increasingly hectic and hazardous, a spaghetti-bowl junction of conflict and uneasy collaboration on the twisting, global highway.» —“Religion Is Again An Earth-Shaking Force” by Bruce Buursma Chicago Tribune Mar. 9, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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