- past tense form of complicate.
- past participle of complicate.
complicated
Example Sentences
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Big Sur’s micro-climate makes firefighting more complicated: The relative humidity drops at night, making fires grow rapidly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Using AI tools to decide on a Medicare Advantage plan may be complicated at best and inaccurate at worst, analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Greenland, a Danish colony for three centuries and now an autonomous territory, still has a complicated relationship with Copenhagen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
El Niño is an awe-inspiringly complicated network of relationships across air and ocean, tying snowfall in Chile with drought in Papua New Guinea and connecting floods in Texas with Antarctic sea ice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
It was huge and complicated, with angry dogs who didn’t listen, and many of the Bright Beasts-that-Bite-Hot.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Vocabulary lists containing complicated
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Excerpts from "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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