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• If the app is sold, that could complicate matters for some US tech platforms.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• To complicate matters, both The Power of the Dog and Belfast have a pair of co-stars who could be competing against each other.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2021
• But no matter what, this is sure to complicate matters.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Don’t complicate matters or give up too much for too little.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• To further complicate matters, while 16 artists are on the ballot this year, Rock Hall voters can only vote for five of them.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2021
• Yet Wright’s claim to be Nakamoto threatens to complicate matters.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
• So the Texans hold almost all of the leverage, and now the mounting lawsuits complicate matters further for Watson.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• To complicate matters, such models change and evolve with more and more interaction.
  — S. Shyam Sundar, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
• To complicate matters further, experts say staying indoors with the windows closed is only the first step.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
• To complicate matters further, weights may change from ranking to ranking.
  — Abba Krieger, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2020
• Of course, the holidays will complicate matters, as time off is mandated by union contracts.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• To complicate matters, Gesicki is an impending free agent and the franchise is stuck between a rock and a hard place regarding his future.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• To complicate matters, up to 85% of cancer patients leave the workforce during their initial treatment.
  — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, STAT, 23 May 2023
• To further complicate matters, the House is only scheduled to be in session for 11 legislative days between now and the new March 1 funding deadline.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• To further complicate matters, people in the art world will also tell you that color by itself is meaningless.
  — Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• To complicate matters, her husband is a fellow diplomat whose career is in decline.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 July 2023
• But three nominees from one show could complicate matters.
  — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• Many investment firms have recently been switching from a buy-to-rent business model to a build-to-rent model, which could complicate matters.
  — Brian Y. An, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• The presence of a weeping ingénue or a flying gurney would only complicate matters.
  — Raul A. Reyes, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• To further complicate matters, the pandemic and the State of Ohio dictated that the conclusion of the spring election was conducted only via mail-in voting.
  — cleveland, 6 Aug. 2020
• But renewables complicate matters because their sources are intermittent—the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 24 Jan. 2022
• Plus, to complicate matters even further, so is a detective, Youssef, who has figured out that Assane has been behind all of the Lupin-esque capers taking place around Paris.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2021
• But Fauci also warned that variants of the coronavirus could complicate matters.
  — Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2021
• To further complicate matters, coach Jeff Judkins retired and Whiting, who has never coached a college game, replaced him.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
• To further complicate matters, my boss’s younger brother has started working at the company.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 22 June 2023
• To complicate matters, pregnant feet tend to be swollen, since your blood volume increases with pregnancy to support the baby, Dr. Brenner says.
  — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2023
• To complicate matters, relations are at an all-time low as tensions in the region have surged over North Korea’s ballistic missile launches.
  — 5 Things Podcast Transcript, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• And to complicate matters further, high heat and humidity may drive people to spend more time indoors, where coronavirus seems to transmit more easily in the air.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 18 June 2020
• New outbreaks complicate matters by putting booster programs on hold until the cases subside.
  — New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021
• And as the world races to adopt sustainable energy practices, the rapid rise of AI integration into everyday lives could complicate matters.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024