unwieldy
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Both risks are being actively managed by CEO Larry Culp, who arrived at GE in 2018 and is credited with turning the unwieldy American industrial conglomerate around.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
The new machine could do tasks about 1,000 times as fast as the electromechanical calculators that preceded it, but it was unwieldy, to say the least.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
The so-called “Hope Ranch Volcano” — as it’s known by locals — had again ignited, and it took crews hours to put out unwieldy flames and hot spots.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
This flawed strategy, led by co-owners Behdad Eghbali and Todd Boehly, resulted in Chelsea appointing a promising 41-year-old manager, inevitably out of his depth at this unwieldy football beast.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
And it was unwieldy, like two hundred pounds, and so the detailers couldn’t really move it.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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