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Recent Examples of overcomplicated
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.
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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
As is increasingly common in our remorselessly overcomplicated age, the coverage of Hamas’s extraordinarily brutal incursion into the nation of Israel has been sliced and diced along a whole host of convoluted lines.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 10 Oct. 2023
So many series on TV right now are overlong, overserious, overcomplicated and overly dull.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
Last year its groundbreaking Tonda Rattrapante GMT brought minimalism to the often overcomplicated complication of two time zones, via a hidden second hour hand, revealed by a push of a button.
—Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 18 June 2023
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
As is increasingly common in our remorselessly overcomplicated age, the coverage of Hamas’s extraordinarily brutal incursion into the nation of Israel has been sliced and diced along a whole host of convoluted lines.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 10 Oct. 2023
So many series on TV right now are overlong, overserious, overcomplicated and overly dull.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
Last year its groundbreaking Tonda Rattrapante GMT brought minimalism to the often overcomplicated complication of two time zones, via a hidden second hour hand, revealed by a push of a button.
—Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 18 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overcomplicated
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The slow rollout underscores the complicated nature of commercializing cutting-edge medical treatments and getting them to patients.Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
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Yet the picture emerging from the latest research is more complicated.Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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As a series finale’s climax (or a season finale, as Paramount Network still insists upon), Jamie’s demise was too stretched out, too convoluted, and took way too long to provide any meaningful satisfaction.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024
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They can be made to wind their way along the sponge’s convoluted contours without ever leaving its surface, hitting a hole, or intersecting themselves.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
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In these conditions, landscape restoration and conservation initiatives become ethically and politically fraught, and questions around how the land should be managed are complex.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
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These simple additions contributed to an even more complex flavor.Ashia Aubourg, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024
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Simplify Technology Digital transformation often results in tech sprawl, a web of disconnected tools that silo data and complicate workflows.Ed Jennings, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Sizable costs levied on businesses, costs that needlessly harm and complicate exchange for customers and businesses alike.John Tamny, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Great hunters understand the intricate balance between passive and aggressive deer hunting tactics.Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2025
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The voting rituals, including hanging the voting papers on a thread, were precisely replicated and based largely on historical fact to showcase the intricate closeup detail.Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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Hulu is going deeper into the tangled web of Tell Me Lies.Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2024
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The water that flooded into some tents in Deir al-Balah soaked everything inside, leaving blankets and carpets a tangled, dusty mess.Abeer Salman, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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Fireworks light up Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor in 2025 celebration Fireworks lit up Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor in their elaborate 2025 celebration.Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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This was no primly patterned minuet, where dancers stood side by side, attention directed to precisely mapping elaborate steps.Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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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.Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
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Such traits are evident in its architecture, which has remained largely the same throughout history, from ornate palazzi to a scruffy, labyrinthine old town whose narrow streets (caruggi in the local dialect) barely get any sunlight.Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Overcomplicated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcomplicated. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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