cumbersome
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Appliance maker SharkNinja is building a tool to allow its finance team to monitor profitability in real time, potentially shaving weeks off the cumbersome process of building a forecast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Germany's export-led industry was long the engine of its economic success but has been hit hard in recent years by rising energy and labour costs as well as cumbersome bureaucracy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Doctors can be dismissive of the information gleaned from an Apple Watch, and putting that data into electronic medical records is cumbersome when it is possible.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
He started wearing them in 2022 or so and last year intended to retire them because they can be cumbersome to travel with.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
It was a cumbersome way of doing business, but it got the job done and went far beyond what Archimedes needed to solve his thought experiment.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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