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Recent Examples of unathletic
In a recent interview, Novak recalled how his father, who coached his Little League team, turned an unathletic teammate into a vital part of the team by recognizing his potential.
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Don Yaeger, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Read More: Welcome to the Noah Lyles Olympics The small kid from Southlake, Texas, who was so unathletic that he got cut from a fifth-grade track team, has already scaled that 15-m climbing wall faster, during competition, than anyone in history.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Fast forward a few years and Bounds, previously a sedentary and unathletic journalist in her mid 40s, has transformed herself into world-class age-group obstacle course racer.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 July 2024
Hopelessly unathletic and bad at sports, Sandy felt alienated by his family his entire life.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
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Don Yaeger, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Read More: Welcome to the Noah Lyles Olympics The small kid from Southlake, Texas, who was so unathletic that he got cut from a fifth-grade track team, has already scaled that 15-m climbing wall faster, during competition, than anyone in history.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Fast forward a few years and Bounds, previously a sedentary and unathletic journalist in her mid 40s, has transformed herself into world-class age-group obstacle course racer.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 July 2024
Hopelessly unathletic and bad at sports, Sandy felt alienated by his family his entire life.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unathletic
Adjective
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Miyares referenced a Richmond Times-Dispatch report of a Virginia trooper clocking Jones at 116 miles per hour, framing him as unfit to enforce the law.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Bush and Quayle team won the 1988 election, but the impression of Quayle as unfit for the job remained a drag on Bush’s reputation.—
Time,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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And honestly, what could be more feeble?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Their calculations show that a feeble interaction between the inflaton field and elementary particles called gluons would be sufficient to warm up inflation.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) AirNow map, which provides a real-time snapshot of air quality, showed that air pollution levels around Sweet Home, northeast of Eugene, were in the unhealthy range on Friday morning.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Although chocolate can sometimes be associated with unhealthy habits, like eating too much sugar, dark chocolate has many redeeming qualities.—
Christina Manian,
Health,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Unfortunately, the Pentagon’s decision appears uncoordinated and directly at odds with the President’s strategy.—
Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
29 Oct. 2025
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This can lead to problems such as weakness, muscle tension, and uncoordinated voiding that can cause issues like incontinence, urgency, and frequent urinary tract infections.—
Maggie O'Neill,
Verywell Health,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Homeroom placement was designated by test scores, and Smith rightly recalled that her homeroom class with Tupac was filled by twenty-eight Black students — and a gawky white kid named William Yates.—
Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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Crenshaw made fun of Davidson’s gawky stature and then called for respect for all veterans as well as first responders in the 9/11 attacks — one of whom was Davidson’s father.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Any insightful commentary on the 1% protecting themselves is rendered rote with a wimpy, ludicrous dénouement.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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These aren’t your run-of-the-mill wimpy tints.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The movie begins in 1989, when Martin was just out of her teens and fighting in Toughwoman contests, and spans 22 years, providing all sorts of opportunities for ungainly period hairstyles, from a ragged pageboy to a curly mullet to a frizzy shag.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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All loads easier than wrangling an ungainly bird half the table doesn’t really much care for anyway (what?—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The company attributed the decline to weak demand, shifting some shipments to Q4 and an unfavorable mix.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Nov. 2025
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It is considered a serious condition and can be dangerous or life-threatening, especially to older adults, people with weak immune systems and pregnant women.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
Freep.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Unathletic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unathletic. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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