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complexity

[kuhm-plek-si-tee] / kəmˈplɛk sɪ ti /


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Isn't this just an added, but inevitable complexity of growing up?

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

“The real challenge will be managing complexity across the entire chain,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

“We also accounted for today’s elevated construction and material costs, along with the time and complexity involved in securing permits and approvals.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

That sense of complexity fuels Vecna, the antagonist of “Stranger Things,” whose climactic final season sees the character, played by Jamie Campbell Bower, take on a multitude of faces — some human and some grotesque.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Thus, competition between societies at one level of complexity tends to lead to societies on the next level of complexity if conditions permit.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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