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In business, there are often competing factors that complicate ethical decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Healthcare costs, inflation and some overlooked expenses could complicate even conservative estimates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Air raid alerts, which sound around the clock and can last hours, complicate repairs, he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Weaker muscles can also complicate recovery from injuries and illnesses and make it harder for the body to regulate blood sugar.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Sometimes correlated quantities are causally related, but other “confounding” factors complicate and obscure the causal relations.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

"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

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 the scale produced by that appetite now complicates the collection’s future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

As “Lincoln in the Bardo” tells it, this paternal visit complicates matters for Willie’s spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

Asked whether he had sympathy for the protesters, Faucher said it was more complicated than that.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Ms. Ostler’s book, however, gets bogged down in descriptions of parties and fashions and complicated family and friendship networks that are difficult to keep straight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The attorney said the case is “far more complicated and nuanced matter” beyond the theft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Social Security is an incredibly complicated subject,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Seriously, it’s more complicated than you think. You gotta have a little know-how and you gotta develop your own style.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

They are also challenging to modify genetically and can be damaged during freezing and storage, complicating the production and distribution of cell therapies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

"The scale of the advance points to a renewed wave of commodity-driven inflation, complicating the outlook for central banks as borrowing costs continue to rise," he warned.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

In recent years, homeowners, developers and businesses have complained that navigating the Planning Department can be complicating and confusing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I went over and over my life to this point, complicating the threads with my fingers, knotting everything.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez