complex
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Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Fox said the investigation had been "fast moving and complex".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Iran has weathered decades of crushing international sanctions, and before the war it continued to export millions of barrels of oil, mostly to China, and evade sanctions through complex international financial networks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Telling a colleague that the software was too anonymous and complex for me, he suggested that I “pay an IT guy to do it.”
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
He added, "Because this technology can form extremely thin, uniform coatings even on surfaces with complex shapes, we expect it to be used in various energy and environmental applications, including industrial heat exchangers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
When he thought of it that way, he realized that complex modern financial markets were as good as designed to reward a person with Asperger’s who took an interest in them.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
"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
About 17 million gallons of water ripped through parked cars and flooded apartment complexes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Modi’s government has built a new Parliament building, relocated the prime minister’s office and is moving key ministries into new administrative complexes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Here, people whisper, the Germans have renovated two kilometers of subterranean corridors under the medieval walls; they have built new defenses, new conduits, new escape routes, underground complexes of bewildering intricacy.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Vocabulary lists containing complex
Academic Vocabulary: Core Tier 2 Words, List 2
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The Catcher in the Rye
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