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• Sandstorms can complicate matters by covering craters in more dust and debris (something that cannot occur on the Moon due to the absence of wind).
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 16 July 2024
• 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
• And as any cat owner will tell you, cats can learn new tricks and complicate matters in unpredictable ways.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 May 2024
• Don’t complicate matters or give up too much for too little.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• To complicate matters, tech companies often say the right thing when in the public eye.
  — Sunny Gandhi, Fortune, 20 May 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, Tom's wife (Potter) and his family throw him a surprise birthday party in the same backyard.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024
• 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, companies often don't have access to the source code of legacy apps, which is needed to rewrite them.
  — Eric Olden, Forbes, 29 Mar. 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
• This year, new payment plans may complicate matters further.
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024