complex
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The tragic denouement has left a complex reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
It said enforcement action could be complex and it must follow statutory processes.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The actor was found unresponsive at an apartment complex in Greenville, S.C., shortly before 2 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Scientists are still trying to understand when the first eukaryotes appeared on Earth and how those organisms helped set the stage for complex life.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
As the games became more complex, the spectators, many of whom followed each game with their tiny pocket sets or leather chess wallets, discussed the vagaries of the positions in whispers.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The plant employs around 1,000 people and is just one of many sprawling industrial complexes standing out starkly from the lush Appalachian Mountain landscape.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board voted to require shopping centers, warehouses, private hospitals and office complexes whose properties drain into the Dominguez and Los Cerritos channels to get stormwater permits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
"This tells the model which parts of the viral and host proteins are close to each other inside infected cells. This was especially useful for virus-host complexes, which are often difficult to predict reliably."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
One of Latin America's worst earthquake disasters hit hardest in the coastal La Guaira area north of the capital Caracas, where scores of residential complexes were flattened.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
It showed an artist’s colorful rendering of the new ROC, with huge shopping complexes, smiling people in sunglasses toting oversize shopping bags, a Corporation oil rig shining from the blue water in the background.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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