Example Sentences

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And she said combining the resources of Rufus and Alexa+, which can search the broader internet, would allow Amazon’s new AI assistant to offer more detail and less awkwardness in its responses.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

She explains that she also did a lot of research into the type of "awkwardness and loneliness" the young Emma is experiencing at school during the film.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

Instead, he said, Greg Russo’s world, for all its awkwardness, is one that he and Lawrence would want to live in, like the place Denford would like more of us to find ourselves.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Social media has been particularly unkind to teenage girls, putting rocket fuel onto the ordinary adolescent stressors of physical awkwardness, the sadness of comparison and the fireworks of inter-friendship conflicts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

And when he finally let us go for the day, I spent as long as possible packing up my books, trying to delay the awkwardness of having to talk to him.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller