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How to use the word CUMBERSOME in a Sentence?

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Medicaid is an extremely important payer for pediatrics, and it is the least generous payer, medicaid is responsible for insuring a large share of pediatric patients. And then on top of its low payment rates, it is often very cumbersome to deal with.

Joshua Gottlieb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs, the federal government exists to serve the American people and these substantial delays for basic services are unacceptable.

James Comer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In an ideal world, a portable at-home device that could offer this therapy would be the eventual goal, for now, it's cumbersome to receive these treatments, as specialized equipment is needed. It can also be time-intensive and costly as well.

Richard Isaacson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So far inflation isn't a huge burden, but it is becoming cumbersome.

Richard Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's all about finding the meal plan strategy that works for you, routinize the parts that are more cumbersome to you.

Leanne Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we don't want is for people to start an application and drop off because it's really cumbersome, we've had to be creative and change the way we attract and source candidates, but also... once we bring them in, what can we do to ensure that we are retaining them.

Shweta Kurvey-Mishra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The tax the way were putting it forward right now, the wealth tax, Im sorry its cumbersome, its been tried by other nations, its hard to evaluate. We can get the same amount of revenue through just taxation, but again, we as Democrats, have got to start talking not just about how you tax from a stage, but how wegrow wealth in this country amongst those disadvantaged communities that are not seeing it.

Cory Booker

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's a really cumbersome process with around 80 reporting fields, it's a real pain and it costs money.

Gary Paulin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We don't want multi-layers because then we'd be very slow and cumbersome, this should be for all vendors.

Nick Read

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

People liked what it stood for, what it meant, we weren't just changing it from Confederate because it was too long or too cumbersome or old-fashioned. We were changing it because it stood for something that we didn't care to uplift. And if we're going to replace it, let's replace it with something we do want to uplift.

Tiffany Friesen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When the government wants to marshal its resources to separate families, it has shown that it can do it quickly and efficiently, but when told to reunite families, it somehow finds it too difficult and cumbersome to accomplish.

Lee Gelernt

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When the animal is out of the water, blubber can be heavy and cumbersome.

Annette Hosoi

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Breastfeeding is time consuming, often cumbersome for some employed women, and still not intentionally supported in many work sites, less time at work provides more opportunity for a woman to continue her breastfeeding effort in her own personal space ; more time at work means a greater need for work time, space and privacy to pump and then a place to store her milk.

Melanie Lutenbacher

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is absolutely brilliant, often I want a pizza, but just dialing that number and talking to people or typing in my computer is just cumbersome.

The Meatball Shop owner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I'm a fan of doing something creative and developing a product, it feels awesome to have accomplished such a cumbersome and such a lovely task. Because if you develop a whole sports car, you can develop almost essentially anything.

Abdul Wahab Ziaullah

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All of it is useful information ... even if it is tremendously burdensome and cumbersome.

Jasper Graham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The traditional shopping centre model is turning on its head, creative, niche, differentiated store types now seem preferred to replicated options and smaller, focused formats seem favoured over large, cumbersome alternatives.

Belinda Clur

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The existing system that goes through banks is expensive, it's cumbersome, it's full of friction and is complex, and there's a lack of transparency. We think it's worse for businesses than it is for individuals.

Chief Executive Mike Laven

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The legitimacy of the federal acknowledgement process, no matter how cumbersome, must be protected.

Robert Martin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The policy framework needs to be improved vastly. Documentation is cumbersome. Land acquisition is time-consuming. Securing debt funding in India and financial closures is a tough task.

Canadian Solar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.

Esther Hicks

added by anonymous
11 years ago

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Boris Pasternak

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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