clunky
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Many developers felt that Codex was too slow and clunky to use, leading OpenAI to change the product to more closely mimic Anthropic’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Like a book publisher shaping a clunky early draft into a bestseller, an executive at the company suggested the scientists punch up the language, which they did.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Ministers have acknowledged already that guidance to forces is clunky and ought to be reviewed.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
The clunky machine had around the same amount of computing power as a modern-day toaster.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
They were double ovals, with a clunky motor.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Making it even broader and clunkier won’t help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
In reality, the transition towards that future is a little clunkier — and a little more fraught with questions about whether it’s the one we really want.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2024
The analytic mode of reasoning is clunkier and more time consuming, often exemplified by “reason, mathematics, and cost-benefit analysis,” says Slovic.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 17, 2023
A 2021 Neuralink presentation of a monkey playing the video game Pong with his mind was similar to a primate demonstration at Brown University in 2001, though it had a far clunkier system.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
As the National Hurricane Center and the World Meteorological Organization explain, affixing names makes things simpler for keeping track, beating the hay out of using something clunkier, such as, say, longitude-latitude coordinates.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Even the dungeons, which are the clunkiest parts of the game, are inventive; they’re shopping malls rather than typical dungeons, and boast mundane objects like cellphones and TVs as enemies.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2021
"Pacific Rim," or what I remember of it, struck me as Del Toro's loudest, clunkiest and least essential picture, if also one of his most passionately felt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2018
That is admittedly the film’s clunkiest line, meant to describe the technological power of the Grid, but representative of its largely uninspired screenplay.
From The Verge ● Oct. 18, 2017
It’s the fifth season at Tennessee for Butch Jones, and his 33-23 record just took on its clunkiest clunker.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2017
Even then, student accounts were invariably on the university's oldest, clunkiest machine.
From Underground by Dreyfus, Suelette
