as in complicated
having many different parts; having many facets
a multifaceted approach to health care
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Recent Examples of multifaceted
The Mississippi approach In 2013, Mississippi implemented a multifaceted strategy for enhancing kindergarten to third grade literacy.
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Harry Anthony Patrinos, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2025
Chloe Kelly, the surprise January loan signing from Manchester City, is a multifaceted player.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Countering Threats Like Hellcat Combating Hellcat and similar ransomware attacks requires a multifaceted defense.
—Etay Maor, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The subjects’ multifaceted backgrounds — from Arab organizers to Jewish students to community Rabbis — helps weave a multicultural fabric, which becomes, at first, a subtle de facto retort to claims of the protests’ inherent antisemitism, and after a while, a very explicit one.
—Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2025
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Harry Anthony Patrinos, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2025
Chloe Kelly, the surprise January loan signing from Manchester City, is a multifaceted player.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Countering Threats Like Hellcat Combating Hellcat and similar ransomware attacks requires a multifaceted defense.
—Etay Maor, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The subjects’ multifaceted backgrounds — from Arab organizers to Jewish students to community Rabbis — helps weave a multicultural fabric, which becomes, at first, a subtle de facto retort to claims of the protests’ inherent antisemitism, and after a while, a very explicit one.
—Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for multifaceted
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President Donald Trump’s tariffs aim to bring jobs and factories back to the U.S., but the reality is more complicated.—
Bruce Gil,
Quartz,
4 Apr. 2025
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Back in 2021, the starlet opened up about those complicated early days following Angel’s birth.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
4 Apr. 2025
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Fruit should be part of a varied diet that includes vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and dairy.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
7 Apr. 2025
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Your unique, varied experience works against you in keyword scoring.—
Gina Riley,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The return to repayment has been chaotic — marked by multiple false starts and mixed messages.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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The early results have been mixed, with a 5-4 record that could easily have been 6-3.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 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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The followup stars Jared Leto as a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with AI beings.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
5 Apr. 2025
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That review can be cursory (does your tax return match the data that the IRS has on file?) or a bit more sophisticated (does your tax return make sense based on other data, like your historic filing patterns?).—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Faced with an issue so vast and complex, people often respond in four common ways.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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However, for all their visual appeal and seemingly effortless ability to inject color into a watch, setting a dial using hard-stones is a delicate and complex process.—
Milena Lazazzera,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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Cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease that has many ways of progressing in patients.—
Angelique Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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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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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 16 Apr. 2025.
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