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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
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To receive one of these designations from a doctor in this era was to be marked as unfit for society and a candidate for potential institution and sterilization.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2025
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Families of victims, human rights defenders and international bodies such as the UN have criticized the commissions for a lack of transparency, for being ineffective and ultimately unfit for delivering accountability.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
30 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 single mom's unhealthy path had started years before.—
Eileen Finan,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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Binge eating or an unhealthy relationship with food could develop.—
Heather Jones,
Verywell Health,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Experts said the leaderless and uncoordinated movement turned violent as economic protests intertwined with political ones.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
8 Jan. 2026
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Last August, this problem became critical in Xinjiang, where uncoordinated wind generation caused low-frequency oscillations that threatened the broader national network.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Dec. 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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Instead of wimpy 20% or 30% discounts, a lot of items are over half off.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
6 Nov. 2025
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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
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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New orders contracted for a fourth month and export bookings remained weak, based on the ISM data.—
Reade Pickert Bloomberg,
Arkansas Online,
6 Jan. 2026
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Getting too little of either can lead to weak, brittle bones, and too much can also cause problems (like kidney stones or nausea).—
T'Keyah Bazin,
Verywell Health,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Unathletic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unathletic. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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