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easy to understand, do, or use; not complicated
The plot was uncomplicated and easy to follow. uncomplicated machinery He's an uncomplicated, straightforward person.
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Recent Examples of uncomplicated
In the garden show, this mission is reduced to its most uncomplicated basics.
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Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026
The surprise return of Hollis’s childhood sweetheart, played by Timothy Olyphant, is also not uncomplicated.
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Alessandra Codinha,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
Though outwardly still the same elegant, uncomplicated maison by the sea, things had actually changed beyond recognition.
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Matt Ortile,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
The practical effect was that more women who had uncomplicated births were sent home after just one night in the hospital.
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Kimberly Turner,
The Conversation,
22 May 2026
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Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026
The surprise return of Hollis’s childhood sweetheart, played by Timothy Olyphant, is also not uncomplicated.
—
Alessandra Codinha,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
Though outwardly still the same elegant, uncomplicated maison by the sea, things had actually changed beyond recognition.
—
Matt Ortile,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
The practical effect was that more women who had uncomplicated births were sent home after just one night in the hospital.
—
Kimberly Turner,
The Conversation,
22 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for uncomplicated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncomplicated
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The questions Campbell needs to answer are simple.
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Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple.
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When asked what works to prevent the chaotic scenes that sometimes dominate news coverage, the youths had a straightforward answer.
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While embryo screening carries relatively less ethical baggage than embryo editing, even screening alone is not always ethically straightforward.
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Louden points out, for example, that Swedish and Norwegian are highly mutually intelligible, but neither is considered a dialect of the other, or of a parent language, primarily because each is associated with a separate nation-state.
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The Aztecs had just two Americans on their roster, so what Caligiuri heard on the sideline was a mix of Spanish, Serbian and heavily accented — and barely intelligible — English from players born in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
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That instinct is understandable.
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Meta’s plan to avoid the cash component is understandable, given that real-money betting is largely prohibited in some of its biggest markets, such as India, Indonesia, and Brazil.
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.
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Look in the most obvious places first.
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Emergency crews continue to assess the situation in different parts of the country, while authorities are expected to provide a clearer picture in the coming hours regarding material damage, injuries and possible fatalities.
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There’s clear evidence that some of the links between larger climate patterns in the atmosphere are being altered by climate change, Trenberth said.
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“Uncomplicated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncomplicated. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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