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The phrase "a difficult and cumbersome" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a task, process, or situation that is both challenging and unwieldy.
Example: "The project turned out to be a difficult and cumbersome endeavor, requiring more resources than we initially anticipated."
Alternatives: "a challenging and unwieldy" or "a tough and awkward".
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The task of finding suitable commercial thermoelectric coolers (TECs) and determining their configurations in the cooling system designs can be a difficult and cumbersome iterative process due to the varieties of product ranges available from different vendors.
It is a difficult and cumbersome (if not impossible) task to achieve even C 1 inter-element continuity in FEM, whereas IGM offers up to C p - m continuity, where p denotes the polynomial order and m denotes the knot-multiplicity.
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The old Etch A Sketch was difficult and cumbersome, but with enough time and effort you could do a lot better than that.
When Phil Schiller showed off the new feature, he noted that remembering passwords was very difficult and cumbersome, yet he offered a solution to that problem only with Apple products.
During his address to a national security meeting in the capital, Taipei, Mr. Ma described the storm as the most devastating in half a century and conceded that the reconstruction work might be "even more difficult and cumbersome" than the rescue efforts, which some have criticized as too slow.
They'd rather make such transactions more difficult and cumbersome for end users, rather than allow Apple – a competitor – take a share of their sales.
I have found the site for that purpose on my insurance policy very difficult and cumbersome to navigate.
While formal complaints to the trade organization are difficult and cumbersome, pointing to the regulations is another signal that the United States will continue to pursue the issue.
The rest of the day at the office usually follows suit — difficult and cumbersome.
However, existing designs introduce many degrees of freedoms, making the control of transformation process extremely difficult and cumbersome, and thus the practical applicability of the mechanisms is restricted.
Therefore the task, of for instance nuclear regulators, to verify the accuracy of such translated files can be very difficult and cumbersome.
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a complex and cumbersome
a difficult and arduous
a difficult and troublesome
a difficult and complex
a laborious and cumbersome
a difficult and awkward
a difficult and tedious
a difficult and laborious
a difficult and impractical
a complicated and cumbersome
a difficult and onerous
a difficult and uncomfortable
a difficult and time consuming
a difficult and complicated
a difficult and delicate
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