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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complicate.

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  • The Tottenham fans' attempt to re-claim the word complicates the issue, but I don't think the argument of the Chelsea fan mentioned in the article would garner much sympathy if his friends were shouting racist abuse at a rapper who was using the 'same word' in his performance.

    The Guardian World News Anna Kessel 2011

  • "What I hear is that people want to create a sense of union, and having that hyphenated name complicates things," she said.

    www.startribune.com 2012

  • That designation complicates a petition by Jackson's mother Katherine to become the administrator of his lucrative, but debt-encumbered estate.

    The Australian | News | 2009

  • That designation complicates a petition by Jackson's mother Katherine to become the administrator of his lucrative, but debt-encumbered estate.

    unknown title 2009

  • I think, most Americans frankly might would have rather had their president win the Nobel Prize for economics which actually as a political matter, frankly, I think it kind of complicates his work here at home, makes it a little harder because expectations will be all that much higher.

    CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009 2009

  • BEGALA: I think it actually -- as a political matter, frankly, I think it kind of complicates his work here at home, makes it a little harder, because expectations will be all that much higher.

    CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009 2009

  • Kathleen, recent violence over there kind of complicates the peace process that the president is putting together.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2008 2008

  • Of course, he has the Clinton's on his back like two hatchets, which let's just say, "complicates" everything else he does.

    How much more evidence do we need? Hillary Clinton wants the presidency in 2012 and the Clinton's HATE Barack Obama. 2008

  • So that kind of complicates my story and gets into certain things.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2007 2007

  • S. O'BRIEN: S. is it just a matter of saying, okay, we got to get rid of the armed wing and step back from our remarks of destroying Israel, which kind of complicates any kind of peace prospects?

    CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2006 2006

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