clunky
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Many developers felt that Codex was too slow and clunky to use, leading OpenAI to change the product to more closely mimic Anthropic’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Like a book publisher shaping a clunky early draft into a bestseller, an executive at the company suggested the scientists punch up the language, which they did.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
The clunky machine had around the same amount of computing power as a modern-day toaster.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
The Wrap said "at times it betrays its amateur beginnings with clunky plotting."
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
After doing their calculations with Babylonian notation, Greek astronomers usually converted the numbers back into clunky Greek-style numerals—without zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
To prepare for a cross-island fight, clunkier cannon artillery has made way for shoot-and-scoot Himars missile platforms, 16 of which arrived in Hawaii this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
In reality, the transition towards that future is a little clunkier — and a little more fraught with questions about whether it’s the one we really want.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2024
The analytic mode of reasoning is clunkier and more time consuming, often exemplified by “reason, mathematics, and cost-benefit analysis,” says Slovic.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 17, 2023
As the National Hurricane Center and the World Meteorological Organization explain, affixing names makes things simpler for keeping track, beating the hay out of using something clunkier, such as, say, longitude-latitude coordinates.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Are you aware of the debate among some viewers about whether it’s better to watch the series with subtitles or in the clunkier dubbed version, which offers less nuance?
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
Even the dungeons, which are the clunkiest parts of the game, are inventive; they’re shopping malls rather than typical dungeons, and boast mundane objects like cellphones and TVs as enemies.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2021
Even at its clunkiest, it leaves you breathless at the heights of personal expression he achieved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
That is admittedly the film’s clunkiest line, meant to describe the technological power of the Grid, but representative of its largely uninspired screenplay.
From The Verge ● Oct. 18, 2017
It’s the fifth season at Tennessee for Butch Jones, and his 33-23 record just took on its clunkiest clunker.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2017
Even then, student accounts were invariably on the university's oldest, clunkiest machine.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
