as in awkwardness
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Young Washington, a new biopic, gives us pre-Revolutionary George, early-20s George, pale, petulant, virginal, ramrod-straight, and bristling with awkwardness and ambition.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026 -
Succumbing to the urge to scroll Instagram the second conversation grows quiet or social awkwardness creeps in.—
Audrey Pachuta,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2026
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Not two years later this tower was to collapse precipitately under its own weight into a pyramid of dust and rubble, only to be rebuilt later, in, unaccountably, all its former gracelessness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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In January 2024, Lola was diagnosed with leukemia after her parents initially mistook bruises appearing across her body for childhood clumsiness.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
25 May 2026
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The tree, which graces a botanical garden, bears patient witness to all manner of human clumsiness.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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Many of those affected were elderly residents or people with disabilities living on the fourth and fifth floors of the building.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
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Fernandez later died from her injuries and Puig suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her with a lifetime of disabilities.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2026
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But Iraq’s inability to keep the margin of defeat narrow when that very well could be the tiebreaker for one of the top eight third-place spots showed a bit of naivety that could prove very damaging.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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Rashada’s unlikely—if not deeply ironic—windfall highlights the secondary market for House claims that has emerged during the post-settlement limbo of antitrust litigation over college athletes’ long-standing inability to profit from their name, image and likeness rights.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
17 June 2026
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This journalistic cynicism amid government ham-handedness shattered something precious too.—
Gil Troy,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Only when Bouzid deals with the repercussions of homophobic Tunisian laws does the melodrama tip into ham-handedness.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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This definition also includes instance in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (include due to the influence of drugs or alcohol) or because of age.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
12 June 2026
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Immortality would also be lost on Stoyte, who rivals the carp in his mindless incapacity to notice anything interesting.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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“Gaucheness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaucheness. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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