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To complicate things, Murderbot has installed a mental-health module that conducts “emotion checks” whenever the cyborg’s organic-neural tissue starts to “generate weird chemicals and whatever.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Increased heat and winds could challenge ongoing firefights, the weather service officials warned, and will almost certainly complicate new fire starts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Club members have been reluctant to speak publicly about the dispute, fearing they could either inflame tensions within the membership or complicate the club’s court cases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

His continued hospitalization could also complicate efforts to move defense funding and other legislation through the Senate Appropriations Committee, where his absence can leave Republicans and Democrats evenly split.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

“To complicate matters, Aurora has a torn wing that must soon be mended if we are to continue,” Ares added.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Huawei has developed a multistep method for producing 7-nanometer chips using DUV, but it complicates circuit layouts, introduces more opportunities for error and slows output.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Directing awards to organizations in high-income countries further complicates the funding.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Mr. Romm complicates matters further by adding quotes from other sources to Stobaeus’ selections, diluting the book’s ability to show us the anthologist’s true intent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

The immediate reappearance of Colbert in a different format complicates that framing, suggesting not an endpoint but a transition across media forms.

From Salon ● May 23, 2026

NOTE: In some woodwinds, such as the clarinet , the upper "octave" may actually be the third harmonic rather than the second, which complicates the fingering patterns of these instruments.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Without getting too complicated into how volatility is calculated, consider this scenario: You’re a money manager and the stock market begins to implode in August.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Its complicated past goes some way to explaining why the world's most popular sport has struggled for participation.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The results reveal that the relationship among the Sun, Earth, and Moon is more complicated than scientists previously understood.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

For all her verbiage, she can find no easy fix, nor even a complicated one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Of course it’s more complicated than that! That’s life. Nothing’s ever simple.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The United States' frenzied rush to build out AI infrastructure has boosted exports of Mexican technology, complicating President Donald Trump's hand heading into trade negotiations.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Majerus-Collins added, however, that there are some complicating factors in the race as well.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Supporters of current policy cite these provisions to argue that important child nutrition supports are being preserved and even made more flexible, complicating the narrative that children’s food assistance is uniformly being slashed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

Caracas-based journalist Luis Hernandez told BBC Newsday that assessing the true scale of the damage would be difficult, with power cuts and internet failures complicating the situation.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

But the girl and her little entourage showed up, complicating things.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman