complicate
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With Youssef Chermiti being taken off on a stretcher on the day it was revealed Rangers had rejected a big-money offer for the striker, that may complicate matters further.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Still, the market’s sharp swings on Wednesday and Thursday underscored how quickly inflation and interest-rate concerns can complicate the bullish case for financials, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
The price increases threaten to ignite a new round of inflation and complicate the path of interest rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Even if a future leader wanted to reverse Trump's duties, revenue considerations will complicate the situation, Lipsky predicts.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hardware complicates my life, but I love it anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
What complicates and darkens the picture from Andromeda’s perspective is that a significant chunk of AI credit is concentrated in private markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
This allowed the team to remove much of the environmental variation that complicates cancer studies involving humans.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Oil’s retreat below $80 a barrel may be good news for consumers, but it complicates the outlook for packaged-food companies.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
This complicates our main story, the dissemination of the idea of the fact in England.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The terms around police protection are more complicated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"But it could also just be fun - sometimes it isn't any more complicated than that."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The debate is complicated by a broad recognition by officials that a single quarter-point increase wouldn’t accomplish much on its own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Astronomers are still working to understand why this swept-up gas forms such complicated arrangements of rings and shells, structures that are commonly seen in planetary nebulae.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Gruzunks! Would you be quiet for a moment? Resilience is most likely working through a complicated set of calculations,” Guardian says.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Global conflict is complicating Saudi Arabia’s ability to ship its oil through its usual channels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The unpredictability of the fire is complicating the work of emergency responders.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
This year growth is slowing, complicating the decision on what to do with its capital pile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Majerus-Collins added, however, that there are some complicating factors in the race as well.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Now, somehow, the same innovative spirit was being put to the opposite purpose: to hide the risk by complicating it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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