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Recent Examples of unathletic
Embiid and George are now slow, unathletic, expensive vets whose health remains a constant question.
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Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Nov. 2025
Persistent lower back pain, despite two surgeries to relieve a herniated disc a few years ago—blame an unathletic youth and an adulthood spent hunched over a computer.
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Peter J. Frank,
Robb Report,
25 Sep. 2025
Some of your tribe members perceived you as unathletic and not a good puzzle solver.
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Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
25 Sep. 2025
No one openly rejoices when an unathletic student fails a fitness test or exits gym dodgeball early.
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Richard Menger Md Mpa,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unathletic
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Nov. 2025
Persistent lower back pain, despite two surgeries to relieve a herniated disc a few years ago—blame an unathletic youth and an adulthood spent hunched over a computer.
—
Peter J. Frank,
Robb Report,
25 Sep. 2025
Some of your tribe members perceived you as unathletic and not a good puzzle solver.
—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
25 Sep. 2025
No one openly rejoices when an unathletic student fails a fitness test or exits gym dodgeball early.
—
Richard Menger Md Mpa,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unathletic
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There are worse strategies, but perhaps the unfit 18-year-old can’t do it all himself.
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The plan to buy large warehouses unfit for human habitation and spend millions more to convert them to prisons sparked nationwide backlash and pointed resistance in Social Circle and Oakwood.
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Jolted by a feeble office market, a growing number of developers are considering ways to convert their office properties to other uses, such as housing projects.
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Enervated cuteness and tryhard sincerity define a whole new wave of musicians, from Pittsburgh rockers feeble little horse to cringe-pop upcycler Worldpeace DMT to SoundCloud producer MASSI, whose songs spill with the tiny adorable detail of a toy train set.
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After more than a decade as a reviewer, Jason Bennett has an unhealthy love for rogue-like survival games and terrible puns.
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Air quality in the Marysvale area is expected to reach unhealthy levels by the afternoon and evening.
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In November, a number of odd bedfellows submitted several, uncoordinated letters to the BLM’s acting director, all urging caution about the downstream effects of the CRA ruling.
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Much of this is vibrational motion, which is random and uncoordinated.
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That's thanks in large part to Hathaway's winning turn as Mia Thermopolis, a gawky teenager who discovers that her estranged grandmother (Julie Andrews) is actually the queen of a small country.
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Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.
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After this, the boy and his mother move to Lima, where the father sends him to a military academy, in an attempt to beat the wimpy artist out of him.
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Bad sesame-ginger dressings are watery, wimpy, oily or syrupy.
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Instead of an ungainly pile of pillows, modern buyers prefer to let the materials sing.
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Seydoux tromps through the film with a masculine heaviness — a sense of dysphoria that translates to her character’s ungainly bearing.
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Following a year of historically weak hiring in 2025, hiring rebounded this spring.
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In a weak free-agency class, centers Robert Williams III (Portland) and Mark Williams (Phoenix) are already off the market, each reportedly agreeing to return to their current teams.
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“Unathletic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unathletic. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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