complication
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Elle had developed quinsy, external - a complication of tonsillitis where a pus-filled abscess grows between your tonsils and the wall of your throat - which turned into sepsis, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Brendan Greeley’s “The Almighty Dollar,” published in May, highlights another complication.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
A complication: Venezuela’s prominent Cisneros family asserts rightful ownership of some of the same oil fields that Pacific Coast is negotiating to operate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Imagine the complication, she said, of coordinating a video conference with an equally busy doctor in another state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
His presence was a complication and an embarrassment.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Both are known complications of CAR-T therapy, which is already on the market to treat some cancers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
There’s nothing more riveting on stage than the truth, and here we have human beings in all their flagrant, unadorned and seemingly irreconcilable complications.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
According to her father, Kate had suffered a number of complications since she was taken to hospital and "could have lost her life a number of times".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Those complications mean large quantities of PVC ultimately end up in landfills.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
The Germans had added new Enigma rotors and other new complications, and the Poles didn’t have the resources to keep up.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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