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Recent Examples of overcomplicated
Sometimes an evaluation doesn’t need to be overcomplicated.
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Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 31 Jan. 2025
Simple Solutions For Complex Matters Healthcare systems are known to be intricate and overcomplicated due to their multifunctionality.
—Sergey Mashchenko, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The internet is rife with fitness hucksters and overpriced, overcomplicated training plans, but Patrick seemed different.
—Wes Judd, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2025
Unfortunately, the system is one of the worst of the year, failing to connect with my Droid for the majority of the test and being generally overcomplicated and anti-intuitive.
—Josh Max, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
All the ingredients were pristine, but it wasn't overcomplicated or filling in a bad way.
—Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2023
Stuart Isett—Fortune The U.S. health system has often been criticized for putting profits above patients with exorbitant fees and overcomplicated processes that get in the way of keeping people healthy.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Well, 24 May 2024
If life has become overcomplicated, make an effort to remove some of those obstacles.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024
The ghosts aim to widen the significance of these events, but their observations are usually either overcomplicated or banal—sometimes both.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overcomplicated
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Construed as a pedagogical exercise more than entertainment, the film offers a deep reading into the complicated plurality of the populace that constitutes nations such as Germany.—
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Their final conflict goes down on Silver’s yacht in the middle of the open water, as Silver ridicules Kreese for his complicated relationship with Johnny.—
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If this convoluted Golden State campaign is to straighten out, some pre-All-Star momentum would really stretch a long way.—
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Like any convoluted romantic comedy, The Wedding Banquet’s foursome’s big silly scheme doesn’t exactly go according to plan.—
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For over 15 years, David E.A. Johnson dedicated his career to solving some of the world’s most complex security challenges driven by criminal networks.—
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The recipe also calls for two kinds of chocolate—in this case, milk and bittersweet—to create a more complex, sophisticated flavor that’s not overly sweet.—
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That the aircraft impacted the ground so violently will no doubt complicate investigators' work, given the state of the physical evidence, Axios' Fitzpatrick adds.—
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Strong winds sweeping through L.A. continue to spread the wildfires as well as complicate containment, with the biggest blaze — the Palisades fire — only 11 percent contained, fire officials estimated.—
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These new platforms need to be able to embrace intricate supply chain data, real-time alerting, and complex decision-support tradeoffs.—
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Their songs contained more complex sounds, and the mice switched between those sounds in more intricate patterns.—
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The collective tension as the game went on, and the poles became taller and more tangled, made every move exciting.—
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Her free-associative lyrics are either mesmerizingly strange or plainly hilarious, and her tangled, clanging riffs have an oddly soothing effect.—
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Read claimed her innocence and her lawyers alleged something far more nefarious was at play, including an elaborate law enforcement coverup.—
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The scheme came together thanks to an anonymous corpse and an elaborate fictional backstory, among other bonkers details.—
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Framed as a mole, Ethan recruits a new team on a mission to clear his name, find the real rat, and get to the bottom of an increasingly labyrinthine international mystery.—
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He’s sent flying off his bicycle by a cop, part of the predictably crooked department that stymies Terry’s attempts to work within the town’s labyrinthine legal system.—
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“Overcomplicated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcomplicated. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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