complication
Example Sentences
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This is a cat and mouse — or cats and mice — melodrama, with customized stock characters given dark secrets and backstory traumas less as explanation than complication.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Similar effects were observed in models of graft-versus-host disease, a serious complication that can occur after bone marrow transplantation.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
There is a complication with that cause-and-effect chain.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
An additional complication is that the outbreak is taking place in a conflict zone, with a quarter of million people displaced from their homes and people moving across porous borders into neighbouring countries.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing complication
Reading: Literature - Fiction - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Fiction - High School
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