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Recent Examples of klutz
Join for hilarious segments like kids on the naughty list, Christmas klutzes, and those hilariously fed up with the festivities.
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Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
On-the-go photographers, field workers, and hopeless klutzes will want to give this tough drive a strong second look.
—John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
In the beginning, Black’s Po was a klutz who trained himself to earn the title of Dragon Warrior, a name given to his region’s greatest martial artist.
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
And yet, this political klutz is paving the way for Schiff to win the seat vacated by legendary Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death last year.
—Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
Someone who had a tendency to fall might win the award for biggest klutz.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
The other guy’s a klutz.
—Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2012
On a popular sketch-comedy show, Ben-Gvir is presented as an amiable klutz.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
Phillipa Soo’s Cinderella is a gentle-souled, indecisive dreamer — and a pratfalling klutz with a sharp but guileless sense of humor.
—Naveen Kumar, Variety, 10 July 2022
Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
On-the-go photographers, field workers, and hopeless klutzes will want to give this tough drive a strong second look.
—John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
In the beginning, Black’s Po was a klutz who trained himself to earn the title of Dragon Warrior, a name given to his region’s greatest martial artist.
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
And yet, this political klutz is paving the way for Schiff to win the seat vacated by legendary Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death last year.
—Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
Someone who had a tendency to fall might win the award for biggest klutz.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
The other guy’s a klutz.
—Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2012
On a popular sketch-comedy show, Ben-Gvir is presented as an amiable klutz.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
Phillipa Soo’s Cinderella is a gentle-souled, indecisive dreamer — and a pratfalling klutz with a sharp but guileless sense of humor.
—Naveen Kumar, Variety, 10 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for klutz
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Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
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Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
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Predictably enough, when the NFL experimented with Week 1 dual dubs from 2021-23, neither CBS nor Fox managed to put up their usual 25 million-plus numbers.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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If the starting video was made in one of those languages, YouTube will only produce an English dub.Wes Davis, The Verge, 10 Dec. 2024
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Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
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Land lubbers hike: Lace up those shoes for a 9 to 11 a.m. excursion on Sunday, Oct. 20, to Ansel’s Cave in The West Woods in Russell Township.Joan Rusek, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
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Water-lubbers can easily access freshwater lakes, rural flatland and woodland forests.Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 May 2018
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Just in time for Christmas, certain members of Congress are hard at work in their policy shops, fashioning a massive lump of cybersecurity coal with which to gift American users of electronic devices.David Williams, National Review, 26 Dec. 2024
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Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain.Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Klutz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/klutz. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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