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overcomplicated
verb
Past of overcomplicate
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Football is a simple game which has been overcomplicated.
"Carousel" notwithstanding, Wheeldon sometimes gets overcomplicated in his pas de deux.
Although Duch freely admitted his guilt and there was a paper trail linking him to the killings at Tuol Sleng prison, the trial still took eight months and was grossly overcomplicated by a distraction called "the victims unit".
I don't mean to make the book sound overcomplicated or in any way challenging to read.
But there is another reason why the results of so many design projects end up being overcomplicated, one that poses moral problems, as well as practical ones, because it involves using design as a means of deception.
Retrofitting doesn't have to be expensive or overcomplicated.
Even if there are brief sections where the staging feels overcomplicated by the parallel settings, characters and plots of the original, Bruce and his extraordinarily gifted dancers and design team navigate the material with near-hallucinatory dexterity.
It lacks focus and is overcomplicated.
They may also insist he finds a way to shed the underperforming German retail bank, Postbank, to simplify an institution that still looks overcomplicated and lumbering.
It is complicated, maybe overcomplicated.
In a game that is often overcomplicated and increasingly obsessed with statistics, the percentages show that Ranieri's team are in the bottom three for possession and that only West Bromwich Albion have a lower pass completion rate, yet the only table that matters – in the absence of one that quantifies teamwork – shows Leicester City with an unassailable lead at the top of the Premier League.
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