Words of Yiddish origin include bagel, lox, blintze, nosh, kosher, kibitz, klutz, tush, schlemiel, spiel and schlep.

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There's no reason to doubt Robertson's story, and the good-guy pitcher swears up and down that, in fact, he is simply a klutz.

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Garlett, who says he's "not a klutz" but "definitely not a natural athlete, " trains about 15 hours a week for October's Ironman in Kona, Hawaii.

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Yet to Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, that does not mean you should park your investment capital like a klutz in money market funds earning 1.5%.

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In an upsetting -- though somehow not surprising -- turn of events, it appears that Scholastic and partner company Klutz have ripped off the work of two Makers, Windell and Lenore Oskay.

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Apparently, Scholastic liked the idea so much that they turned it into a kit and book for kids (with the help of Klutz), but failed to involve or even credit the gadget's original creators.

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As Jerome Littlefield, an aspiring doctor whose debilitating sympathetic hypochondria reduces him to menial labor at a sanatorium, Lewis is both a flustered klutz who tries too hard and a soft-spoken, painfully sincere Everymensch.

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Mark was not a stereotypical geek-klutz.

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The dispatcher, having started out as a klutz so ordinary that he wears a tie and a sleeveless sweater, morphs into an action hero, which is just one of a cluster of wild implausibilities that crowd out the cogency of the film.

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