complication
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This is a cat and mouse — or cats and mice — melodrama, with customized stock characters given dark secrets and backstory traumas less as explanation than complication.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
There is a complication with that cause-and-effect chain.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
An additional complication is that the outbreak is taking place in a conflict zone, with a quarter of million people displaced from their homes and people moving across porous borders into neighbouring countries.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio identified another complication in a Fox News interview that aired Monday: the internal battle for control in Iran that complicates any diplomatic effort.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
But before Louis Béroud gets too excited, tell him there’s a slight complication.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Vocabulary lists containing complication
Reading: Literature - Fiction - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Fiction - High School
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