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The phrase "complex and opaque" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe something that is difficult to understand or has a high level of complexity. Example: The new tax code is very complex and opaque, making it difficult for the average citizen to understand their own tax obligations.
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Olympia & York's finances were famously complex and opaque to outsiders.
For most of us, the internet is complex and opaque.
The strong reactions may stem from the notoriously complex and opaque nature of airfare pricing.
Amid public anger over ballooning compensation, such contracts often became more complex and opaque.
Huge, complex and opaque banks continue to take enormous risks that endanger the economy.
Even to news junkies with graduate degrees (like myself), the world of international finance is mind-numbingly complex and opaque.
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Of the adjectives often used to describe the art market — complex, unregulated and opaque — the last has always been truest.
But it also leaves our systems uselessly complex, frustrating and opaque to the average citizen.What can we do to reverse this?
But the very things that make Lukoil work in Russia are holding it back in the rest of the world, analysts and industry experts say: Lukoil remains a very Russian company, with all that has come to imply, from its complex structure and opaque finances to its inefficiency and dependence on the good will of the Kremlin.
"The evidence so far points to a complex and very opaque web of privately-owned family businesses which helped make the deal possible.
"[But] the spread of complex and often opaque trading strategies has raised concerns about potential implications for market stability in times of stress," the BIS said.
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