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  • Both sides, understandably, I guess, want to simplify, flatten, and decomplicate what is a devilishly knotty public policy challenge.

    Ray Suarez: The fight against SB1070 2010

  • Maybe Snyder needed to decomplicate Laurie in order to complicate a broader cultural point about women in genre movies.

    See What The Clock Makes Us Do | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Or put it another way: Having an idea is OK, maybe even on Iraq or North Korea, but you've got to decomplicate it, jazz up your act, never give your audience an intellectual headache, and most of all, you've got to sink your teeth into the opposition, you've got to out - fang the pundits on the other side, the conservatives.

    CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2003 2003

  • But this underabundance is good, because maybe they'll become bored and leave town sooner and decomplicate my life.

    Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992

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