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Planners call this the sequence-of-returns risk, which is a clumsy name for something simple.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

One unquestionable element is its success in raising the low estimation of Green Lantern created by a particularly clumsy movie, simply by imagining possibilities in much bigger terms.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Popular culture has often depicted the dodo as clumsy and unintelligent, sometimes suggesting that its extinction was almost unavoidable.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

"I feel like my brain is working in slow motion, I tend to become clumsy and way more forgetful," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Everyone knew that Nancy was a little clumsy.

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene

They have to be tilted into a dumpster that is moved into position, but Alexander makes the comic most of these clumsier stage mechanics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

Camille was funnier and weirder and clumsier — and happier.

From Salon ● May 30, 2025

And indeed, in clumsier hands, the episodic humiliations of Less, “this slapstick, ridiculous, zigzagging queer,” might quickly pall.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022

And yet, the camera I lust after now is exactly this X1D, even while it’s heavier, sometimes clumsier, and consistently slower than most other cameras.

From The Verge ● Feb. 12, 2018

As a result, the Phaistos disk’s printing technology was much clumsier, and offered fewer advantages over writing by hand, than Gutenberg’s printing press.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But there’s an earnest, yearning passion here that makes the film feel vital even at its clumsiest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Nevertheless, the script also makes amends in some of the clumsiest, most nightmarish plot developments imaginable.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2021

The clumsiest amongst us has taken a daily ballet class, and isn’t half bad.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2020

The seven-speed Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has a feature called Active Rev Matching, which automatically adjusts the engine’s speed to smooth out your clumsiest shifts—something drivers once had to learn through practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2018

And before I could say Yankee Doodle, I was swept onto the marble dance floor and forced to divide my time among four of the South’s clumsiest, rock-footed mutineers.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan