complicate

Wars make the former task easier but complicate the latter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Pike's lawyers had warned before the execution attempt that she has small veins and thrombocytosis, a blood-clotting condition that would complicate the procedure.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Credit freezes limit authorized access to your credit reports, so they can complicate approval of an application, Experian adds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The laboratory sits beneath 1.4 kilometers of radiation-dampening rock, which blocks much of the background interference that would otherwise complicate the search.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

To complicate matters, on the same day Esperanza went into heat, Pancho Armijo came home with a brown milk goat.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

In Greece, his dual citizenship complicates efforts by authorities to extradite him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"The situation significantly complicates navigation in the Black Sea, drives up insurance premiums, and makes maritime traffic extremely difficult," Radev said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

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 it really complicates what is actually a fairly fundamental part of being human, which is that you are warm and you love your children and you put in place some boundaries around them."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

“My parents don’t really get it when I’m sarcastic. It complicates things.”

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

Not all forecasters use the same scale to interpret El Nino, and the comparison is complicated by the background effects of climate change.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Making Hinds’ loss more intense and emotionally complicated was that the band had just fired him from Mastodon five months earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

A new generation of individual investors discovered the markets during the post-Covid rally, and by early 2021 many amateur traders were pushing into more complicated, and often riskier, bets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Ali was injured by a drone as he walked down the street and is facing a complicated surgery.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

This righteous story was complicated by the fact that it was…well, not true.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

At your age, the premiums do start to creep up, in addition to medical tests complicating matters.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The disruptions are adding pressure to the Saudi economy and complicating Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 plans, which rely on sustained state spending to diversify the economy and finance large-scale infrastructure projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

However, deep mistrust remains, with their contested frontier, a widening trade deficit and strategic rivalry still complicating ties.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

This meant some first responders recovered were wearing uniforms with others' names, complicating identification.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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