complication
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A complication: Venezuela’s prominent Cisneros family asserts rightful ownership of some of the same oil fields that Pacific Coast is negotiating to operate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
County announced its first West Nile death of the year — a San Fernando Valley resident who had been hospitalized with a neurological complication caused by a severe infection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Overall, you're talking about 3% of people will get a brain infection complication and 97% of people will have either no symptoms or have this relatively short-lived, albeit unpleasant, severe flu-like phase," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Lambers Heerspink said, "In the finerenone group, 13.9 percent experienced such a complication, compared to 16.9 percent in the placebo group. That amounts to a reduction in risk of approximately 23 percent."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The complications can eventually be fatal, when not enough oxygen reaches the bloodstream.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The illness is gaining more attention as Clancy's trial approaches the one-month mark, and has opened up a dialogue about the mental health complications that women can experience after giving birth.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
He’d spent a night in a Maine hospital due to complications from a fall and then learned his mother-in-law had died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Otherwise, it could cause complications if — in a worst-case scenario — the house burned down or the roof blew off in a storm.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Then in 1790, soon after assuming the presidency, he came down with influenza, then raging in New York, and nearly died from pulmonary complications.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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