as in complicated
having many different parts; having many facets
a multifaceted approach to health care
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Recent Examples of multifaceted
Alicia Vikander’s multifaceted role in The Assessment deserves your attention.
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Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2025
This multifaceted Dyson appliance packs air purifying, humidifying, and cooling power that Harrison can’t get enough of.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 20 Mar. 2025
Read: The mysterious, meteoric rise of Shein In the past several years, cultural awareness has grown about the reality of the fast-fashion business model, which relies on paying factory workers shockingly low wages and takes a multifaceted approach to furthering the ruination of the planet.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2025
These are complex, multifaceted challenges that are constantly changing and have no clear solution.
—Kate Kilpatrick, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
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Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2025
This multifaceted Dyson appliance packs air purifying, humidifying, and cooling power that Harrison can’t get enough of.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 20 Mar. 2025
Read: The mysterious, meteoric rise of Shein In the past several years, cultural awareness has grown about the reality of the fast-fashion business model, which relies on paying factory workers shockingly low wages and takes a multifaceted approach to furthering the ruination of the planet.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2025
These are complex, multifaceted challenges that are constantly changing and have no clear solution.
—Kate Kilpatrick, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for multifaceted
Adjective
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Getting out of bed early is less complicated than people think, according to Barrett.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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The mechanics of an evacuation just aren’t that complicated.—
Rascal Kemble-Curry,
New York Daily News,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Strickland's journey to AEW's main event scene has been a long and varied one.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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Blackledge's content varied between lip-syncing clips, car content and videos taken with his friends and girlfriend, Emmie Gillikin.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
25 Mar. 2025
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And in spite of early mixed reviews, it's become a staple in the rom-com canon, thanks in large part of Roberts and Gere's undeniable onscreen chemistry.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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The Democratic embrace of influencers has also yielded mixed early results.—
Matt Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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There are extensive drawbacks to using nuclear weapons, including their very destructiveness—which could undermine larger objectives or complicate battlefield operations—and the international backlash that would follow.—
Paul Avey,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Mar. 2025
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Since the Trump administration took office, environmental activists have feared that certain existing standards could be rolled back and further complicate efforts to clean up American water supplies.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
26 Feb. 2025
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In a world of increasingly frequent and sophisticated digital threats, the loss of cybersecurity personnel could weaken America’s defenses against ransomware, espionage, and infrastructure disruption.—
Solange Charas,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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The engagement algorithms for such platforms are vastly less sophisticated than the ones that will be deployed in agentic A.I.—
Jaron Lanier,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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While most jurisdictions are moving forward with digital tax reforms to ensure that foreign providers contribute to public revenue, the Dominican Republic has so far stepped back—highlighting the complex political and economic considerations that influence digital tax policy.—
Aleksandra Bal,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Those on the inside track have already discovered white Châteauneuf-du-Pape, a racy but complex regional style of white wine that is popping up on tables and shelves with increasing frequency.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Recently, the algorithm was used to analyze post hoc the resulting workload for a single human deploying a heterogeneous robot swarm in an urban environment.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Nov. 2022
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But over time, in some cities, New York among them, the totemic simplicity of a man eating a steak fell out of fashion, replaced by more heterogeneous modes of conspicuous connoisseurship: nouvelle cuisine, the auteur-chef tasting menu, the thousand-dollar omakase, the members-only supper club.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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This system stores energy by lifting heavy composite blocks to an elevated position using surplus electricity.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The preliminary composite purchasing manager index (PMI) for March rose to 53.5 — consensus had been for 51.7 — from 51.6 in February, driven by an unexpected jump in the services reading to 54.3 from 51.0.—
Josh Fellman,
Quartz,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Multifaceted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/multifaceted. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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