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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.
—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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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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In October, the judge found that Conner was mentally unfit to testify in person at trial and allowed the recorded testimony, even though defense attorneys will not be able to cross-examine him in front of the jury.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
4 May 2026
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More than two years later, the trial concluded with 25 of 28 defendants being found guilty (of those not found guilty, two had died during the trial and another was declared mentally unfit for trial).—
USA Today,
USA Today,
3 May 2026
Adjective
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So, in retrospect, [the entire Lightning project] looked pretty feeble.—
Jamie Lincoln Kitman,
Rolling Stone,
24 Apr. 2026
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His visit also comes as the committee stalls on advancing Casey Means, Kennedy’s nominee for surgeon general, over her lack of medical practice experience and feeble answers on the importance of vaccination.—
Daniel Payne,
STAT,
22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The agency advises limiting outdoor activities during unhealthy air days.—
Forum News Service,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
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Whether at the grocery store, or driving past a fast-food restaurant, she's less tempted to buy an extra or unhealthy snack.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
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The country had lost a generation of promising students and researchers during World War I; its universities were teaching math in uncoordinated, fragmented ways, using materials that were woefully out of date.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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For a quiet, uncoordinated kid, there was nothing cooler than a hero whose superpower was his imagination.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Played in full, Silent Way induces a pervasive nausea, reveling in gawky soundscapes that seem barely able to contain their outsized, clashing ideas.—
Maxie Younger,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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Bad sesame-ginger dressings are watery, wimpy, oily or syrupy.—
Jolene Thym,
Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2026
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The sausage is fine, the muffin is wimpy but fine, the whole thing’s fine.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In its back-to-back knottiness, the album takes on an ungainly quality that, deliberate or not, sets up roadblocks to prolonged enjoyment.—
Maxie Younger,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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The situation has grown so ungainly and untenable that, if Silicon Valley is merely forced to slow down, the viability of all this spending will likely be called into question in ways that could be devastating for many.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, the rest of the NBA is widely expected to be more competitive next season — from the bottom tier, where anti-tanking regulations and a weaker draft class should curb teams’ intentional losing, to the upper echelons, where Oklahoma City and San Antonio stand tall.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
8 May 2026
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Conditions change quickly, signals conflict with each other, and weak assumptions tend to get exposed without much delay.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
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“Unathletic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unathletic. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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