as in inexperience
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clumsiness
Noun
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The mixed signals were partly a matter of inexperience.—
Chris Megerian,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025 -
Maybe youth, maybe inexperience, but bad job coaching by me.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There will also, no doubt, be a search for efficiency savings, and efforts to root out what Mr. Trump has called incompetence and corruption.—
Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s approval rating never surpassed 50 percent during his first term, and a combination of incompetence, overreach, unpopular policies, and partisan polarization will likely limit his support during his second.—
STEVEN LEVITSKY,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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When pressed on such timelines during a Senate hearing in December 2024, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf reiterated the issue isn’t a matter of corruption or incompetency, but federal support.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
15 Jan. 2025
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It's been a revolving door of incompetency under center for the Browns this year.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The Panthers understood that liberation and empowerment could only come through communal love focused on helping one’s neighbors and building up one’s community, even though their inability to live up to their ideals ultimately limited some of the group’s potential.—
Mickell Carter / Made by History,
TIME,
19 Feb. 2025
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But they have been slowed by the COVID pandemic, cost increases due to inflation, permitting delays and other problems, including the inability of local water agencies sponsoring them to come up with all of the matching funds.—
Paul Rogers,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Clumsiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clumsiness. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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