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to cumbersome

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Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious

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Mr. Gates said he wanted to flatten a bureaucracy that had experienced significant "brass creep," swelling to "cumbersome and top-heavy proportions".

But the White House and conservative Republicans they felt that needlessly expanded the size of government and tethered Mr. Bush to cumbersome regulations.

This changing focus has necessitated a shift in structure, toward mobile rapid-reaction forces as opposed to cumbersome, conventional infantry units.

About 30 years ago, William Rubin, then chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, noted in referring to cumbersome new art mediums like Earthworks that "the concept of the museum may not be infinitely expandable".

Theoretically it makes for a nice change, but chills are few and far between; trying to find your missing mountaineer brother is a tedious process, due to cumbersome controls and absurdly ponderous pacing.

In day-to-day life, from banking to dating, if you don't know who you are dealing with, you are vulnerable to fraud or deceit, or will have to submit to cumbersome procedures such as scanning and uploading documents to prove who you are.Much work has gone into making systems that can recognise and verify digital IDs.

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Athletes may find ace bandages to be cumbersome when worn during physical activity.

This was reported to be cumbersome to administer especially to caretakers who had no cues to remind them.

While these are rigorous, they have also proven to be cumbersome to construct.

Furthermore, extant paper records tend to be cumbersome to back-up.

In planning the study, the ADL staircase was considered to be too cumbersome to administer to patients at ICU discharge.

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