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Credit freezes limit authorized access to your credit reports, so they can complicate approval of an application, Experian adds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The laboratory sits beneath 1.4 kilometers of radiation-dampening rock, which blocks much of the background interference that would otherwise complicate the search.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Feldman hopes the exhibition, which spans fine-line drawings of entangled lovers and radiant topographical tapestries, will complicate that familiar account.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Reliable is avoiding it altogether, arguing it would complicate certification.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

“Millamant’s Magic Marquees...they’re very good, Bill’s escorting them....You’d better stay inside while they’re here, Harry. I must say it does complicate organizing a wedding, having all these security spells around the place.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Neuroscience has a name for this gap between the chase and the catch, and it complicates a popular idea.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

But the scale produced by that appetite now complicates the collection’s future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

That finding complicates competing ideas about how the LCA traveled through forest environments.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

His unpredictability complicates Prime Minister Mark Carney’s negotiating stance, but he also provides a useful foil, a kind of bad cop for which Carney can offer his more measured good cop approach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Together, they siphon off an enzyme, which stops the production of a certain hormone, which complicates my life.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

That sense of togetherness followed her into professional cooking, but so did the more complicated expectations surrounding women and food.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

I realized that replying to complicated requests or problems in anger or haste was never smart, so I kept his rule to slow my response time down eight hours for future correspondence.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

Manning still has flashbacks — now, compounded by fear that the next evacuation could be complicated by heavy truck traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The researchers expect that as future experiments become larger and more complicated, however, quantum computers will eventually be able to solve versions of these problems that classical machines cannot handle.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

At the moment, he was attempting a villanelle, a poetic form more complex than even the most complicated dance step.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

However, deep mistrust remains, with their contested frontier, a widening trade deficit and strategic rivalry still complicating ties.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

This meant some first responders recovered were wearing uniforms with others' names, complicating identification.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

And complicating matters, was it possible my cat could be seen as, if not an outright red flag, a deterrent?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

But growing research is complicating the idea that these alternatives are automatically healthier.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

The accounting procedures used to measure these assets are frequently quite artificial, and there are other complicating factors which are obvious with a little thought.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos