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Adjective
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Getting any small business off the ground is no small feat and breweries are complex creatures.—
Blaine Callahan,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026 -
What was looking pretty easy, with Saturday morning rain and then Sunday afternoon to evening rain, has now become a little more complex.—
Ron Smiley,
CBS News,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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Palma Palma serves a seasonal tasting menu that changes often, so every visit feels a little different—the food is creative and full of layered, thoughtful flavors without feeling overcomplicated.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 Apr. 2026
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Lee echoes the same sentiment and notes that certain specialty products, like overcomplicated or time-consuming jewelry cleaners, aren't worth hanging onto.—
Tessa Cooper,
The Spruce,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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June 21 – July 22 A thoughtful conversation helps something complicated feel easier today.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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Her complicated relationship with her parents and being an only child adds to it, as does becoming a mother for the first time.—
Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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The rescue of a single animal does not ameliorate any of these risks—and, if anything, convoluted efforts to save one whale might distract from the work of protecting a species and its habitat.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
New Yorker,
2 May 2026
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Mad made fun of how convoluted the time travel and patterns were in the movie and had John Madden explain what was happening.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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These are common but complicate long-term planning for federal agencies.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Despite differing views on a variety of security issues, the group, like Gilpatric’s, reached a clear consensus: nuclear proliferation by any additional country would diminish U.S. power, complicate strategic planning, and increase the likelihood of nuclear use, accidents, and disasters.—
MARIANO-FLORENTINO CUÉLLAR,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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These jagged fins are so intricate — some thinner than a human hair — that standard manufacturing couldn’t touch them.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
8 May 2026
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Her practice focuses on divorces involving intricate financial structures like hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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The city’s response has been a tangled mess of litigation, disarray by regional partners and too little immediate action.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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Instead of juggling a tangled mess of chargers in your travel bag, this one streamlined charging cable powers multiple devices at once.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
3 May 2026
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In the first onscreen interaction between them, Rue, now working as a drug mule for a dealer named Laurie (Martha Kelly), wends her way through a labyrinthine house party before meeting Alamo, sitting in a hot tub, flanked by four strippers, and wearing a Speedo and a cowboy hat.—
Molly Lambert,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
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Quentin Tarantino’s outrageous revisionist Western is wildly over-the-top, combining the director’s penchant for gratuitous violence and sparkling dialogue with a story that’s pleasingly labyrinthine but nothing if not schlocky.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Overcomplex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcomplex. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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