complicated
adjective
com·pli·cat·ed
ˈkäm-plə-ˌkā-təd 
1
: consisting of parts intricately combined
a complicated recipe
complicated machinery
2
: difficult to analyze, understand, or explain
a complicated issue
his absurdly complicated life
complicatedly
adverb
complicatedness
noun
Synonyms
Examples of complicated in a Sentence
The game's rules are too complicated.
The machine has a complicated design.
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Plenty of economic dynamics are more complicated than the base supply-and-demand model that everyone learns in grade school, but there’s a reason that this is the default observation of markets.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 July 2024
But Dylan has a complicated relationship with the protest song — not that anything about the man is really straightforward.
—David Polansky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
Large, complicated polyps are then slowly and carefully removed in one piece.
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The settlement -- which will bring new water supplies to the Verde Valley and settle the tribe's decades-long water rights claims -- is the latest after Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs reversed a state policy that complicated tribes' efforts to claim their rights to water, Krol wrote.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 July 2024
But Dylan has a complicated relationship with the protest song — not that anything about the man is really straightforward.
—David Polansky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
Large, complicated polyps are then slowly and carefully removed in one piece.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
The settlement -- which will bring new water supplies to the Verde Valley and settle the tribe's decades-long water rights claims -- is the latest after Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs reversed a state policy that complicated tribes' efforts to claim their rights to water, Krol wrote.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
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complicated
adjective
com·pli·cat·ed
ˈkäm-plə-ˌkāt-əd
1
: consisting of many combined parts
complicated machinery
2
: difficult to analyze, understand, or explain : complex
complicatedly
adverb
complicatedness
noun
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