Sentence examples for a cumbersome exercise from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a cumbersome exercise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a task or activity that is difficult, awkward, or burdensome to perform.
Example: "Completing the lengthy paperwork was a cumbersome exercise that took up most of my day."
Alternatives: "a tedious task" or "a burdensome activity".

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A relatively low number of Iowans participate, but that is also true for the caucuses, a cumbersome exercise which has notoriously low turnout.

For years, Mark Racine, the technology director of the Boston Public Schools, and his team plodded through a cumbersome exercise at the start of each school year: transferring student roster information from school databases to the various learning apps that teachers wanted to use in the classroom.

Categorically assessing these multiple types and subtypes would have been a cumbersome exercise requiring much greater investment.

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Asked if he was disappointed at the tardiness of the polls, one Dinka tribesman in Juba sagely replied that he was confident they would open eventually, on "African time".The late openings will, however, further complicate an already dangerously cumbersome exercise.

But aiming and re-aiming the giant radar's beam is a cumbersome manual exercise.

Why create a cumbersome bureaucracy?

It was a cumbersome and costly process.

The Department of Homeland Security is a cumbersome bureaucratic monster.

Complicating matters is a cumbersome bureaucracy.

He wore a cumbersome white neck brace.

Overturning regulations is a cumbersome process.

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