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choppily

ADVERB
unevenly
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With so much chronological haphazardness, the handsomely produced if choppily edited “Freud’s Last Session” becomes trapped in a no-patient’s-land, neither effectively enlarged nor satisfyingly intimate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

Markets reacted choppily to a much-watched speech from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell overnight, although most investors leaned further into bets that the Fed will extend its rate pause in November.

From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2023

The result is a film that’s engaging enough, but choppily paced and oddly inert.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

The fight scenes, full of swordplay and gunfire, are choppily edited and somehow lackadaisical.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

Night morphed into day as José wallowed choppily though his routines and changed clothes every ten seconds; it was like one of those arty found-footage montage movies.

From Nature ● Mar. 13, 2018




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