clumsiness
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It's best to exclude penalties as refereeing decisions and defensive clumsiness give a false impression of how good teams actually are at attacking and defending, especially at this early stage.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
There’s no harm in that per se, but you’ll have to forgive my irritation with Sudeikis, Lawrence, Hunt and fellow executive producer and showrunner Joe Kelly’s clumsiness with the team’s most complicated working relationship.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
As the Multistrada gets rolling, the clumsiness gives way to a deeply balanced, pin-sharp precision and effortless, lock-to-lock agility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
“I’m sure we all have fractured toes from stuff like this...Just clumsiness I guess.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Now he saw that it was not random thorny branches and his own clumsiness in walking into them, but rather an assault from Forest itself.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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