- present tense form of complicate (3rd person singular).
complicates
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The borrowing binge makes global markets even riskier and complicates the ability of central banks to step in to help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Remote and difficult terrain complicates fieldwork, while the seasonal appearance and often hidden nature of fungal reproductive structures make some species especially difficult to locate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Climate change complicates the picture because the oceans are now warmer, but scientists can strip out that background effect to determine the absolute rise.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
But here’s what complicates the monster story, and what Hollywood has failed to illustrate in this movie: I also found a young man failed by nearly every system around him.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
But Bacon then complicates matters by using the adjective experimentalis to cover all knowledge grounded in experience; and he has no verb for ‘to experiment’ other than experiri.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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