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- adverb In a
clunky manner.
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Examples
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So, with that failure, I decided to just use the ordinary clamping set, which works just fine, if a bit clunkily:
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I therefore corrected “First Amendment scrutiny” to “constitutional scrutiny” (or I could have said, more precisely but clunkily, “constitutional free speech/press/petition scrutiny”).
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Deep Roots of Constitutional Constraints on Speech-Based Civil Liability 2010
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While insisting that print is not dead, Bill Bush told me he is rising, Phoenix-like, from the clunkily-named THE Magazine, a one-hit SoCal print journal wonder whose rapid demise saw the apparent disappearance of its publisher.
Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010 Mat Gleason 2010
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However, almost nothing in this clunkily constructed play seems to happen from dramatic necessity.
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Turbulent Family Life Paul Levy 2011
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While insisting that print is not dead, Bill Bush told me he is rising, Phoenix-like, from the clunkily-named THE Magazine, a one-hit SoCal print journal wonder whose rapid demise saw the apparent disappearance of its publisher.
Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010 Mat Gleason 2010
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While insisting that print is not dead, Bill Bush told me he is rising, Phoenix-like, from the clunkily-named THE Magazine, a one-hit SoCal print journal wonder whose rapid demise saw the apparent disappearance of its publisher.
Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010 Mat Gleason 2010
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Notice and takedown: works clunkily with copyright infringement, which is easy compared to defamation and related torts, with which most would-be reformers of 230 are concerned.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The real trick is to balance the unclarity that results from ambiguity against the unclarity that comes from clunkily unambiguous writing.
I come to praise potential ambiguity, not to bury it « Motivated Grammar 2010
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While insisting that print is not dead, Bill Bush told me he is rising, Phoenix-like, from the clunkily-named THE Magazine, a one-hit SoCal print journal wonder whose rapid demise saw the apparent disappearance of its publisher.
Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010 Mat Gleason 2010
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While insisting that print is not dead, Bill Bush told me he is rising, Phoenix-like, from the clunkily-named THE Magazine, a one-hit SoCal print journal wonder whose rapid demise saw the apparent disappearance of its publisher.
Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010 Mat Gleason 2010
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