cumbersome
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"The film has a few scattered giggles, but it's dawdling and cumbersome, and far less 'relevant' than it thinks," read a review from the Hollywood trade publication Variety.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
He pointed to cumbersome regulations as well as the rising cost of machinery and fertiliser - trends that began before Trump returned to the White House.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Appliance maker SharkNinja is building a tool to allow its finance team to monitor profitability in real time, potentially shaving weeks off the cumbersome process of building a forecast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
But the transactions were cumbersome, slow and unreliable, and Tehran often had to settle for the money staying abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Similarly, Japan continues to use its horrendously cumbersome kanji writing system in preference to efficient alphabets or Japan’s own efficient kana syllabary—because the prestige attached to kanji is so great.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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