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clumsy

[kluhm-zee] / ˈklʌm zi /


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People have been creating basic AI companions for the last two years, and AI experts say the technology is already good enough to create clumsy AI models of real people.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Food preparation bots are sometimes clumsy – dropping ingredients in the wrong places at times, she explains.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Planners call this the sequence-of-returns risk, which is a clumsy name for something simple.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Popular culture has often depicted the dodo as clumsy and unintelligent, sometimes suggesting that its extinction was almost unavoidable.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

She imagined Sahel stumbling through a jungle, clumsy, oblivious to what waited for him among the vines.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Using the blower to herd balls around the park feels fairly intuitive, though naturally I'm much clumsier and slower than the pro landscapers.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Camille was funnier and weirder and clumsier — and happier.

From Salon May 30, 2025

Apple doesn’t allow for native app streaming, requiring the likes of Microsoft to build a clumsier, web-based solution than what’s available on Android.

From The Verge Jun. 8, 2022

Another, clumsier layer of cheap varnish was no doubt applied by the thieves.

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2022

As a result, the Phaistos disk’s printing technology was much clumsier, and offered fewer advantages over writing by hand, than Gutenberg’s printing press.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But there’s an earnest, yearning passion here that makes the film feel vital even at its clumsiest.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2023

The seven-speed Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has a feature called Active Rev Matching, which automatically adjusts the engine’s speed to smooth out your clumsiest shifts—something drivers once had to learn through practice.

From The Wall Street Journal May 24, 2018

Social media may be the earth’s clumsiest tool for meting out justice, but lately it has at least been proving a slightly less hospitable venue for comics with a poor track record around women.

From Salon Nov. 11, 2014

The poor girl tumbled onto the ice as if she were the world’s clumsiest 15-year-old, milliseconds after she had appeared to be the most graceful one.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2014

It was the clumsiest production of physical interaction; the whole thing lasted no more than several seconds.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi




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