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单词 complex
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complex
(kɒmpleks )
Word forms: complexes pronunciation note:   The adjective is pronounced (kəmpleks ) in American English.
1. adjective B2
Something that is complex has many different parts, and is therefore often difficult to understand.
...in-depth coverage of today's complex issues.
...a complex system of voting.
...her complex personality.
...complex machines.
Synonyms: complicated, difficult, involved, mixed  
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
In grammar, a complex sentence contains one or more subordinate clauses as well as a main clause. Compare compound, , simple.
3. countable noun
A complex is a group of buildings designed for a particular purpose, or one large building divided into several smaller areas.
...plans for constructing a new stadium and leisure complex.
...a complex of offices and flats. [+ of]
4. countable noun [with supplement]
A complex of things is a group or system of things that are connected with each other in a complicated way.
...the complex of clans which occupied the land.
...the military-industrial complex.
5. countable noun
If someone has a complex about something, they have a mental or emotional problem relating to it, often because of an unpleasant experience in the past.
I have never had a complex about my height. [+ about]
...a deranged attacker, driven by a persecution complex.
Synonyms: obsession, preoccupation, phobia, fixation  
6.  See also guilt complex, inferiority complex
Collocations:
complex composition
Many of them are magnificent tours de force of complex composition, producing a spectacular profusion of overlapping images.
The Times Literary Supplement
Their essential features are their gritty character and their complex composition.
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With magpie assiduity, he takes an inventory of details to build his big, vibrant and increasingly complex compositions.
Times, Sunday Times
But when these are assembled into complex compositions they don't always quite work.
Times, Sunday Times
But when we think of therapeutic sounds, we imagine classical strings and complex compositions - or at least something ambient involving dolphin calls.
Times, Sunday Times
complex concept
Talent has always been a complex concept.
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Many argue that the interaction among component concepts should allow a complex concept to be greater than that sum.
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If a complex concept were not distinguishable from any given component, it would be identical to that component.
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This allows a complex concept to accrue features with existing relationships with its component simple concepts.
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This occurred even when the properties of the complex concept contradicted those of the simple concepts.
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complex creature
By the hallucinogenic final stages, this count was more than a fanged emoji, a cloaked cipher - he was a complex creature hidden even to himself.
Times,Sunday Times
How we constantly categorise each other based on this single characteristic when humans are such complex creatures.
Times, Sunday Times
Because we are flawed and complex creatures all our institutions partake, intrinsically and permanently, of these same flaws.
Times, Sunday Times
Dolphins are incredible and complex creatures that belong in their natural home - in the wild.
The Sun
They were, in short, complex creatures.
Times, Sunday Times
complex dynamics
It's here that the complex dynamics of a team of ambitious, insecure adolescents are given depth and verve.
Times, Sunday Times
The complex dynamics of the complex lifetime of a complex family have been successfully frozen in a single image.
Times, Sunday Times
Any public-policy debate about mandatory retirement needs to recognize the complex dynamics that exist in workplaces.
Globe and Mail
Positive affect and the complex dynamics of human flourishing.
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His research draws from a large number of areas, such as macroeconomics, monetary economics, flexible functional forms and demand systems, and nonlinear and complex dynamics.
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complex ecosystem
We also have a complex ecosystem living inside our digestive tracts called the microbiome.
Times, Sunday Times
They were part of a complex ecosystem that included much smaller organisms: mammals, insects, plants.
Times, Sunday Times
Once released through farming, genetically engineered organisms become part of our complex ecosystem, and there are few clues about what the cumulative effects will be.
Christianity Today
Some of the world's most serious infectious diseases are being combatted by innovative research which looks at the whole of the complex ecosystem they are embedded in.
Times, Sunday Times
The pollens found in the cores have revealed a complex ecosystem that changed over time.
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complex emotions
At the same time they are struggling to deal with the complex emotions that follow the end of family life as they knew it.
Times, Sunday Times
I watched that extraordinary moment on television and found myself gripped, like millions of others around the world, by powerful and complex emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
They try to win when they face each other, but they also have to confront unusually complex emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
It gives us clear tools to negotiate complex emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
I'm interested in abstract and political and complex emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
complex environment
They are paid to deliver in a challenging and complex environment, take tough decisions and get knocked about.
Times, Sunday Times
The probation service works in a complex environment in which political, criminal and societal pressures combine to make its task onerous and hazardous.
Times, Sunday Times
The company found it difficult to obtain reliable tear glucose readings in the complex environment that makes up the eye.
Times, Sunday Times
It's quite a complex environment and you have to work with people to try to get the best out of it and to move things forward.
Times, Sunday Times
For a more complex environment, we provide a service where we help assess the needs and assist with transition and migration planning.
Times, Sunday Times
complex flavour
Its sweetness kept the spirit of the classic pâte de fruit, while the earthiness gave it a complex flavour.
Times, Sunday Times
Choose a ruby port for a sweeter finish with notes of younger grapes, a tawny port for a more silken and complex flavour.
Times, Sunday Times
This organic pinot noir has a light cherry hue and exudes complex flavour, with hints of damson jam and a crunchy, fresh finish.
Times,Sunday Times
They grow in clusters, and go a deeper colour and develop a more complex flavour the longer they are left to ripen.
Times, Sunday Times
It possesses a more complex flavour, a delightful sharpness, and seems somehow more suited to late-summer evenings.
Times, Sunday Times
complex formula
His complex formula will largely exclude middleclass households living in draughty houses and low-income households in well-insulated homes.
Times, Sunday Times
Consultants rely on a complex formula to compute their fees, and they are averse to divulging it.
Christianity Today
They failed to grasp the effect of the complex formula which made the performance hurdles much less taxing than a casual glance suggests.
Times, Sunday Times
The rest of their revenue has come down from on high via grants from central government, based on a complex formula aimed at ironing out inequalities between areas.
Times, Sunday Times
She once suggested to a colleague a complex formula whereby individual states capped leverage limits on funds.
Times, Sunday Times
complex instruments
The complex instruments became popular because they allowed interest to be rolled up and paid off several years later.
Times, Sunday Times
This cautionary tale warns us against uncritical optimism when it comes to 'improving' such complex instruments.
The Times Literary Supplement
Retail investors are often admonished by investment professionals about investing in complex instruments that look too good to be true.
Times, Sunday Times
He added that 'even those beyond our borders who trade on stolen non-public information and use complex instruments in an attempt to avoid detection will be caught'.
Times, Sunday Times
These highly complex instruments use one or more methods (bombardment with electrons, high heat, electrical force) to break apart molecules into ions.
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complex interaction
Wonderful performers in every discipline emerge from the complex interaction of genes, culture, personality and practice.
Times, Sunday Times
The committee said that it would take evidence, including some public sessions, to examine the complex interaction between security legislation and human rights laws.
Times, Sunday Times
Today crises and conflicts involve a complex interaction between governments, their departments, civilian, paramilitary and military groups and individuals, international organisations and the mass media.
Times, Sunday Times
He shows that it was the complex interaction of cultural ideals and ideology, cognition and situation that determined the guards' behaviour.
The Times Literary Supplement
The layers are originated from complex interaction among surface, lubricants, and environmental molecules.
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complex interplay
Within each cell of our body, many thousands of proteins (organic chemical compounds) participate in a complex interplay.
Times, Sunday Times
He creates a picture within a picture, a complex interplay of illusion and truth, challenging the simple presumptions of the spectator.
Times, Sunday Times
Only a superintelligent system could map the phenomenally complex interplay of gene mutations that gives rise to a genius pianist or a star second baseman.
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Ideally the two go together in a complex interplay, with the right in overall charge.
Times, Sunday Times
So let us list some deeper problems, and their complex interplay, before offering a few solutions.
Times, Sunday Times
complex issue
With our best crisis management hat on, we've turned our mind to this complex issue.
Times, Sunday Times
We shall continue to do this, including work on the complex issue of increasing disclosure of clinical trials data.
Times, Sunday Times
Horizon addresses this complex issue dispassionately, without making value judgments.
Times, Sunday Times
This can bring determination, a sense of loyalty, and purpose to a complex issue.
Christianity Today
With a complex issue such as a run on a bank, government and opposition lack the expertise to act sure-footedly.
Times, Sunday Times
complex mechanism
A fault had developed in the complex mechanism that operated its doors.
Times, Sunday Times
Each of these elements was hand-crafted, and a complex mechanism was created that would peel back the egg's shell and rotate its dollhouse-like interior.
Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, the realization that most metamorphic belts are not the product of a single geothermal gradient indicates a more complex mechanism.
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The authors note that learning to read involves a complex mechanism involving many parts of the human brain.
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This particular protein domain helps the pili to form, via a complex mechanism named the chaperone/usher pathway.
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complex mix
It's an impossibly complex mix of regulations, substitutions and amendments.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a complex mix, and some are hard to do anything about.
Times, Sunday Times
I soon realised that you need a complex mix of qualities to succeed at the game - patience, resilience, attention to detail, ability to take risks and a grasp of maths.
The Sun
The report set out a complex mix of political, economic and technological solutions.
Times, Sunday Times
Or maybe ethical entrepreneurs, however good the cause, are just driven by the same complex mix of ambition, insecurity and vanity as any entrepreneurs.
Times, Sunday Times
complex mixture of
Human beings are a complex mixture of emotions and motives.
Times, Sunday Times
A typical mass spectrum shows multiple signals because the molecular ion fragments into a complex mixture of ions and uncharged radical species.
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Ageing and longevity are determined by a complex mixture of environmental and genetic factors.
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The chemical secretion has a strong coffee-vanilla odor and composed of a complex mixture of synthesized phenolics and plant toxins produced from the grasshoppers diet.
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An odor emission often consists of a complex mixture of many odorous compounds.
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complex model
It says the flaws in the highly complex model are linked to assumptions made about the effects of low-level clouds and pollution on the climate.
Times, Sunday Times
Simply, the coordination complex model accounted for the inner sphere ligands being less prone to dissociate, where a traditional molecule did not.
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A great number of parameters in a complex model can be candidates for estimation but not all are estimable.
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A reasonably complex model was used to identify fraudulent monthly reports submitted by divisional controllers.
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A more complex model will usually always be able to explain the data better, which makes choosing the appropriate model complexity inherently difficult.
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complex molecules
These complex molecules were once thought to carry instructions to the cells.
Times,Sunday Times
Analysis suggests a high concentration of complex molecules of the kind thought necessary for the evolution of life.
Times, Sunday Times
By chance, the chains of complex molecules start to self-replicate, most likely through a simple chemical process called the citric acid cycle.
Times, Sunday Times
Mostly these are very large, complex molecules or mixture of molecules.
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They are common for complex molecules, which includes most natural products.
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complex network
She discovers that the last bastion of humanity lives in a complex network of underground caves.
Christianity Today (2000)
It is part of a complex network of hidden limestone caves.
The Sun (2008)
This task requires a more complex network structure than previously assumed, probably containing polysynaptic interneuron connections and feedback loops.
Elham Fathiazar, Gerrit Hilgen, Gerrit Hilgen, Jutta Kretzberg, Jutta Kretzberg 2018, 'Higher Network Activity Induced by Tactile Compared to Electrical Stimulation of Leech Mechanoreceptors', Frontiers in Physiology
complex operation
It's going to be a hugely complex operation involving forces all over the country.
Times, Sunday Times
He accepted that it would be a complex operation and would take some time, but said its implementation could begin soon.
Times, Sunday Times
But extracting the cells involves a long, complex operation and carries serious risks.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a complex operation providing round-the-clock chaplaincy.
Times, Sunday Times
A complex operation, three months' rest and early conditioning work followed.
Times, Sunday Times
complex organism
Putting the complex organism to rest, you can go to your rest.
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At the time, it was the most complex organism to have its full genome sequenced, and took seven years and the involvement of more than 100 laboratories to accomplish.
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His technique evolved organically, not unlike the emergence of complex organisms through natural selection.
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In many cases, algae and other simple organisms that don’t need as much oxygen to survive proliferate at the expense of complex organisms.
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It allows the existence of stronger, more complex organisms that can climb the food chain.
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complex pattern
They were able to 'read' their opponents, in particular the complex pattern of upper body and arm, enabling them to infer where the ball was going before it was struck.
Times, Sunday Times
All other caecilians have a complex pattern of grooves, with secondary or tertiary annuli present.
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The parasitic infection of a sample of hosts inherently exhibits a complex pattern that can not be adequately quantified by a single statistical measure.
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They occur mostly in urban and industrial areas, usually in small areas, and can be associated with other soil groups in a complex pattern.
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This shows a more complex pattern than a simple accusative, ergative or aspect-split pattern...
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complex personality
Nevertheless, we are given a glimpse into a complex personality.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet in the deluge of the past fortnight's media, he has come over as a far more complex personality.
Times, Sunday Times
Maybe that's why the schedule has such a complex personality.
Times, Sunday Times
In some respects, that of a more complex personality than has generally been believed.
The Times Literary Supplement
He deals sensibly with a difficult, complex personality.
Times, Sunday Times
complex phenomenon
This feels like a simple assessment of an inevitably more complex phenomenon.
The Times Literary Supplement
Now we come to the complex phenomenon of reverse swing.
Times, Sunday Times
We are now experiencing an extremely complex phenomenon which both divides and unifies the world we live in.
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Concept drift can not be avoided for complex phenomenon that are not governed by fixed laws of nature.
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Predictions about complex phenomena are, of course, difficult to get right.
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complex problem
This may at first sight appear as a magic solution to a complex problem.
Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes it astounds me by creating a string of words or a solution to a complex problem.
Christianity Today
Looking to the future, a final chapter proposes art as 'the complex solution to the complex problem of our existence'.
Times, Sunday Times
It's only a very small part of the solution to a complex problem.
Times, Sunday Times
For those who hope the movie offers a simple solution to this complex problem, prepare to be disappointed.
Christianity Today
complex procedure
She was under anaesthetic throughout the complex procedure involving three specialist consultant surgeons and multiple clinical teams.
The Sun
They also managed to go through a complex procedure at a control panel inside one of the turbine halls to turn the machinery off.
Times, Sunday Times
This was a complex procedure, he said.
Times, Sunday Times
But insourcing can be a complex procedure.
Times, Sunday Times
But until the council began its shared services programme, it was a complex procedure.
Times, Sunday Times
complex process
There had been a number of attempts to shorten and simplify this complex process.
Judith Flanders Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006)
Investigations have continued in secret, with the prospect of an extraordinarily complex process of valuation and restitution to come.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
Its cultivation involves a complex process of browning that precedes the primordia initiation.
Maiara Andrade de Carvalho SOUSA, Lívia Martinez Abreu Soares COSTA, Thiago Souza PEREIRA, Diego Cunha ZIED, Danny Lee RINKER, Eustáquio Souza DIAS 2018, 'Enzyme activity and biochemical changes during production of Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Pegler', Food Science and Technology
They were created using a complex process called dye-transfer, which ensures each colour is printed in its richest form.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
complex reality
But now, she says, the gleaming images of her + kale usually conceal a more complex reality.
Times, Sunday Times
So instead we offer veterans our praise and appreciation, and in so doing reflect a poor understanding of the morally complex reality of military service.
Christianity Today
In an odd pact between journalists who want to write sensation, and readers who want to buy it, we choose cartoonish half-truths over complex reality.
Times, Sunday Times
Not even the most labyrinthine novel could compete with the complex reality of each family's experience there.
Times, Sunday Times
But only a few millimetres below the surface, there's a more complex reality.
Times, Sunday Times
complex regulations
The department's guidance to hospitals on establishing residence runs to 12 pages of complex regulations.
Times, Sunday Times
Due to the complex regulations dictating medical timeouts the referee accompanies the medical trainer onto court.
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The authority of a caller to use the precedence levels was granted by complex regulations.
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The division delivers solutions that integrate deep local knowledge with leading workflow technology solutions, helping professionals worldwide navigate complex regulations and requirements to ensure compliance with accuracy and efficiency.
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complex relationship
That complex relationship with his old manager still fixates him.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a complex relationship and while some benefactors talk with quiet gratitude, others have unrealistic expectations.
Times, Sunday Times
I have a complex relationship with pink, probably worthy of psychoanalysis.
Times, Sunday Times
Not quite false and not quite true, he evokes something of the complex relationship between private person and public persona which animates us all.
The Times Literary Supplement
It's not smug literary theory but a recognition of the complex relationship between what happens to us and what we say about it.
Times, Sunday Times
complex scheme
The complex scheme involved 400 wealthy people buying shares worth millions of pounds and then selling them for hundreds of pounds.
Times, Sunday Times
Last week, a tax tribunal judge ruled that a complex scheme devised to buy the property free from stamp duty was unlawful.
Times, Sunday Times
The complex scheme involved claiming tax relief on a 1 million licence purchased from a pharmaceutical company.
Times, Sunday Times
The council now proposes a complex scheme that will block the street at one end, meaning residents who drive will have to take far more circuitous routes.
Times, Sunday Times
Further other dams and diversions add to this complex scheme.
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complex set of
A complex set of graphs drawn from software has been sent to the club, who will decide how to act on them during the winter.
Times, Sunday Times
How you apply that principle in a given situation depends on a complex set of variables.
Christianity Today
Sobriety may help him to deal with the complex set of problems that await him above ground.
Times, Sunday Times
It's an incredibly complex set of arrangements, and it reverses policy set in train in 2006.
Times, Sunday Times
He carries a big stick - but he has written a complex set of rules on how and when to use it.
Times, Sunday Times
complex society
They could not offer clear-cut choices to the voters but rather had to compromise and adjust to keep such a complex society together.
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We police an increasingly complex society where tensions are often exacerbated by events overseas.
Times, Sunday Times
It's better to conceive of taxation as an unfortunate necessity, given the requirement for public funds in a complex society.
Times, Sunday Times
This book finally reveals the complex society of our closest cousins, wild chimpanzees.
Times, Sunday Times
The production of agricultural surpluses had long been seen as essential in promoting population density and the emergence of complex society.
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complex solution
Looking to the future, a final chapter proposes art as 'the complex solution to the complex problem of our existence'.
Times, Sunday Times
His insight was correct, but it was also a tiny part of a phenomenally complex solution, which still means that practical tide calculations require 20 years of actual location data.
Times, Sunday Times
The manufacture of industrial minerals involves a complex solution mining operation in which naturally occurring brines are pumped from wells completed in several salt beds.
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The causes of crime, and of social problems, are complex and require complex solutions.
Times, Sunday Times
Of course there are many complex solutions to our economic and climate change challenges.
The Sun
complex structure
This complex structure relies on 'transfer pricing', a tactic used by multinationals to channel profits through low-tax jurisdictions while piling up costs in higher-tax states.
Times, Sunday Times
Banking sources say the complex structure of the deal means a final agreement may not be ready in time for the bank's results.
Times, Sunday Times
However, a complex structure, which produces heavy losses in falling markets, has deterred less savvy investors in the past.
Times, Sunday Times
But these policies have been heavily criticised because their complex structure makes it difficult to gauge performance and analyse charges.
Times, Sunday Times
Even the extravagant tail of a peacock can be encompassed within the intricate and complex structure of evolutionary theory.
Times, Sunday Times
complex subject
But, obviously, not all the aspects of that complex subject could fit in the newspaper format.
Times, Sunday Times
It was so satisfying to him and so enlightening to me to see his light bulb go on about such a complex subject.
Christianity Today
It's a complex subject with high broker/adviser fees and high accumulating compound interest (the sum owed doubles after 10 to 12 years).
Times, Sunday Times
But cops say they need to understand 'every element' of a 'very complex subject' before speaking to him.
The Sun
They were always packed, because he had the ability to present his complex subject coherently, incisively and with conspiratorial wit without any preparation or notes.
Times, Sunday Times
complex system
It simplifies the existing complex system, turning learners into smarter customers.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But in a complex system there is a tendency to cluster around powerful units.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It can be a very complex system.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
She spoke at length about its complex system of color-nodes, its powerful contractile capacity.
Robert Silverberg MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES (1982)
complex topic
People con-centrated, took expert advice seriously, could cope with complex topics and reached nuanced conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
One wonders how such problems will be overcome with the command and control policies emerging from uninformed politicians speaking authoritatively on complex topics after but a few weeks in post.
Times, Sunday Times
He has few equals at explaining complex topics, and his positive theories are never boring.
The Times Literary Supplement
Exhibit topics reflect current scientific issues and complex topics that help people to use science to solve problems in their communities.
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The student attends the lecture and uses the podcast as a backup for reviewing complex topics.
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complex web
These are people often working within a complex web of ethical dilemmas.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
You can explore the complex web of politics and economics and personalities that drive modern science.
Porush, David A Short Guide to Writing About Science (1995)
To divide a city of four million and its complex web of railway lines?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The international vendetta that allegedly led to his death was obscured by a complex web of gang warfare and money laundering.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It was a complex web of rage.
Claudia Hammond EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings (2005)
condominium complex
The condominium complex, which can be seen for miles away, became what many consider an eyesore.
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The building used for the nursing home in this episode was picketed by anti-redevelopment protesters due to the building being converted into a condominium complex.
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The feeder canal closed in the late 1880s and the last mill was destroyed and replaced with a condominium complex about ten years ago.
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The neighborhood has six streets, and holds about 120 homes (many horse properties), a condominium complex, and a small elementary school.
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In addition to a golf course, the grounds also have a large condominium complex.
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enormously complex
But the enormously complex reasons for such horrors are not considered here.
Times, Sunday Times
But it's enormously complex trying to understand to what degree we act by our history, impulse, altruism, genes or just by coincidence.
Times, Sunday Times
A show that often seemed smart suddenly looked enormously complex.
Globe and Mail
Many had feared the enormously complex case would collapse.
Times, Sunday Times
He argued that intellectual property law was 'enormously complex' and in need of reform.
Times, Sunday Times
entertainment complex
Why protest against election fraud when you can relax in a magnificently landscaped park and spend the evening at a newly refurbished entertainment complex?
Times,Sunday Times
There were plans to build an entertainment complex featuring a 200ft tower.
Times, Sunday Times
They surround a huge wooden-floored outdoor entertainment complex which comes to life in the evening with excellent live shows.
The Sun
The owners of the 287 flats have access to a leisure and entertainment complex.
Times, Sunday Times
With a heated indoor pool and entertainment complex, it had a bustling, villagey feel.
The Sun
extraordinarily complex
Investigations have continued in secret, with the prospect of an extraordinarily complex process of valuation and restitution to come.
The Times Literary Supplement
However, the political landscape of the campaign remains extraordinarily complex.
Times, Sunday Times
The human body and brain are extraordinarily complex.
Times, Sunday Times
That mineral-rich water creates its own art, calcifying the riverine flora to create extraordinarily complex and delicate plant-formed travertine rock.
Times, Sunday Times
By trading in the extraordinarily complex area of 'asset-backed credit default swaps'.
Times, Sunday Times
highly complex
The claims and counterclaims are highly complex but boil down to one main charge.
Times, Sunday Times
The firm said it was a 'highly complex' case and it acted in good faith.
The Sun
Obviously, some innovations in highly complex structured products have been disastrous.
Times, Sunday Times
But it remains encumbered by 4.6 billion of debt - 15 times greater than its stock market value - and governed by a highly complex financial structure.
Times, Sunday Times
It goes deeply but intelligibly into the technicalities of its highly complex subject.
The Times Literary Supplement
hotel complex
As you venture around a deserted hotel complex, trying to discover what has happened, you realise you have been bitten but don't know what by.
The Sun
Our first few days see us staying in the hotel complex.
The Sun
Now a vast hotel complex, buildings, track and rolling-stock are beautifully preserved.
Times, Sunday Times
The hotel complex has a large outdoor pool, an indoor infinity pool looking out to sea, a spa and a gym, several restaurants and bars.
The Sun
Then it was back to the grounds of the hotel complex to do the fun bit.
Times,Sunday Times
housing complex
She has lived in a public housing complex for five years.
Times, Sunday Times
As many as 41 foreigners are being held captive in two locations, the main gas plant and a housing complex.
Times, Sunday Times
He twice targeted the couple at a sheltered housing complex in the city.
The Sun
He moved into a ground-floor flat in a sheltered housing complex.
Times, Sunday Times
He came down on a dirt road in a housing complex, hitting a street light.
The Sun
huge complex
We enter the huge complex on the stroke of noon.
Times, Sunday Times
It was found close to a distinctive hexagonal basin or 'harbour' at the centre of the huge complex, which covers two miles square.
Times, Sunday Times
But the dismantling volunteers are booked, the weather worsening to frost, the poppies sold for charity to those who paid 25 early enough, huge complex arrangements made.
Times, Sunday Times
More than 1,000 staff were evacuated as the fire ripped through part of the huge complex.
The Sun
These are all based in one huge complex: an internet star factory of sorts.
Times, Sunday Times
infinitely complex
These images all followed a simple rule that, when repeated over and over, led (eventually) to an infinitely complex image.
Christianity Today
Billed as 'basic', their work involves building relationships with human beings who are infinitely complex.
Times, Sunday Times
But if the practice works at all, it works in an infinitely complex historian's sort of way, not in a simple, straightforward winner-takes-all sportsperson's kind of way.
Times, Sunday Times
Biochemistry was complex, but not infinitely complex.
Times, Sunday Times
Those ten-odd billion meals a day are an extraordinary collective achievement based on trial and error and an almost infinitely complex division of labour honed over 10,000 years.
Times, Sunday Times
large complex
They have been at the helm of large complex organisations in very challenging economic times.
Times, Sunday Times
But replacing large complex council services and business areas that demand money, skills and proper business controls?
Times, Sunday Times
You rent a furnished bedroom in a large complex and it comes with shared living, dining and workspaces.
Times, Sunday Times
Large complex teams need people from both ends of the introvert/extravert spectrum.
Times, Sunday Times
Most have no training in science or the management of large complex organisations.
Times, Sunday Times
main complex
The main complex houses a theatre, a restaurant seating 500 people and various bars.
The Sun
The main complex feels a bit sterile, however - a multistorey swimming pool with spa trimmings.
Times, Sunday Times
The hotel's hideaway beachfront villas, each with private plunge pool, have the most cachet - but for guests lodging in the main complex, here's a tip.
Times, Sunday Times
If you can force yourself to leave your villa, there are several top-notch restaurants in the main complex, plus an infinity pool.
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The main complex of the building stands four stories high plus a basement.
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pool complex
Sparkling waters can be found at the fabulous pool complex too.
The Sun
The site has a bar, restaurant, entertainment team and pool complex.
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The campsite has a great swimming pool complex with slides and chutes, tennis, cycle hire, archery, boules, mini golf and a restaurant and bar.
The Sun
Twenty minutes later, as the storm gathered pace and gusting winds blew branches off trees surrounding the pool complex, the show was called off.
Times, Sunday Times
Theme park, live entertainment, pool complex, golf and beach.
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residential complex
The villa was one part of a vast residential complex that archaeologists believe allowed the owner to mix business with pleasure.
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Developers are being offered the chance to turn the building into a hotel and residential complex.
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She told him about a residential complex she wanted to build on her family's land, saying she was having difficulty obtaining permits.
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A residential complex providing 384 student rooms and a 2m refurbishment of the university's performing arts centre were set to be ready for students this term.
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University has a two room set married hostel for married students located in the residential complex.
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retail complex
There are proposals to redevelop our shopping centre and planning permission has been granted to develop a 40m retail complex that will expand the shopping area.
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Some schools could even work in the same premises as existing occupants 'in one floor of an office or in one unit of a retail complex'.
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In 2008 plans were put forward to demolish the site and build a luxury hotel, apartments and retail complex, none of which came to fruition.
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It was converted into a market and retail complex, and alterations were made for this purpose in 1983 and 1990.
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There may be a hotel and retail complex to support the stadium and pay some of the cost.
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sprawling complex
The sprawling complex of rooms and facilities now inside the castle will easily accommodate any number of contestants.
The Sun
The sprawling complex boasts a library, cellar, restaurant and bookshop.
The Sun
Their aim was to free more than 4,000 prisoners held in the sprawling complex.
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The previous week he had been spotted tending the gardens of the sprawling complex during his lunch break.
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Some witnesses claimed there were more and that some could yet be holed up in the sprawling complex.
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training complex
The training complex also boasts a cinema.
The Sun (2014)
But it also helps that the 200 million training complex is more comfortable than any hotel.
The Sun (2016)
Walk into the club 's training complex and the first thing that catches your eye is a huge signed photo of the great man.
The Sun (2009)
underground complex
The low-rise blocks radiate from a central hub, where laundry and maintenance facilities are located in an underground complex.
Times, Sunday Times
Satellite images released by the group purported to show a heavily-fortified tunnel leading to an underground complex.
Times, Sunday Times
Slowly - infuriatingly slowly for an impatient world - a huge underground complex began to emerge.
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The five-storey underground complex was raided by 650 police officers, including a commando unit, who seized 200 computer servers containing vast amounts of information.
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A copy of the novel appears in the third episode of the second series, when the characters have broken into an underground complex.
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vast complex
Standing in the middle of the vast complex, the industrial drone sounds like an aircraft perpetually coming in to land.
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It was a vast complex disc encircling a placid lagoon.
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Anyone caught taking photographs of the vast complex are likely to be arrested.
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The city government, however, has yet to come up with a convincing plan for the vast complex in the middle of the capital.
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They even agreed that the people who built this vast complex might have invented agriculture.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 复杂的, 联合体
Japanese: 複合の, 複合体
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