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cumbersome

[kuhm-ber-suhm] / ˈkʌm bər səm /


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Some half-a-dozen foreign tourists that the BBC spoke to also blamed longer and more cumbersome visa procedures and a hike in the five-year visa fees for the decline in visitor numbers.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

"When making tools for chemists, the user interface matters a lot, and previous tools relied on cumbersome filters and rules," says Andres M Bran, the first author of the Synthegy paper published in Matter.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

The libretto is cumbersome although full of dramatic promise and surprise and with a comic episode that prefigures “Falstaff.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

“We expect smaller GPU providers and eventual enterprise customers to leverage Dell’s broader infrastructure portfolio rather than source third-party equipment/technologies that are more cumbersome to integrate,” Daryanani added.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

“That’s enough practice,” I said and started to take off the cumbersome costume, but they wouldn’t let me.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya




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