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ungracefully



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But the ferries were aging ungracefully long before that.

From Seattle Times Nov. 28, 2023

Voices grew louder as I ungracefully moved upstream, jumping from slippery rock to slippery rock.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2023

Too often, the belaboring rebounds and you crash back to earth as ungracefully as Peter Pan.

From New York Times Apr. 19, 2023

What has befallen him, in the intervening decades, we don’t discover, but he has aged, ungracefully so.

From The New Yorker May 25, 2015

It took him a second to sit down on the ground next to me, and he grimaced as he landed rather ungracefully on his ass.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green




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