- past participle of complicate.
- past tense form of complicate.
complicated
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At the same time, Ford has been wrestling with stiff competition from Chinese upstarts around the world, a reality that will become more complicated if those companies were to break into the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
West Virginia, which has a long and complicated history with extractive industries such as coal, wants to attract more data centers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
It’s not a terribly complicated show so we’re there for a couple of hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
"I asked a lot of questions. She told me it was complicated."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
What was behind me and what was ahead of me felt like nothing but snarled knots of complicated.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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