lumbering
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Other risks include all the likely complications of combining two lumbering banks with distinct cultures and clienteles in different geographies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Costing A$136,000, the artwork represents a mythical megafauna, with the sculpture's designers inspired by an ancient marsupial ant-eater found in local caves that was "massive, lumbering and fascinating".
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Part of Melissa's punch stems from its slow pace: it is lumbering along slower than most people walk, at just three miles per hour or less.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
If Europe can’t concentrate spending, its startups will struggle to grow or shake up the continent’s lumbering military sector as U.S. startups are doing in Washington, say investors and founders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Bears came lumbering down from the hills, and fish jumped up from the ponds, and vultures circled above.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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