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However, they assign equal weight to every sampled model, obscuring the temporal prevalence and dynamics of inter-residue contacts. In this study, we performed dual 1-microsecond (\u00b5s) Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations for eight biologically relevant fuzzy complexes, utilizing the most distant conformers from deposited NMR models, as starting configurations. Through structural clustering and contact-persistence analysis, we classified the complexes into two distinct dynamic categories. The first group comprises complexes whose trajectories remain consistent with experimental data. Notably, large-scale motions such as relative chain rotations observed during simulations are already reflected as distinct orientations within the starting NMR conformers. Conversely, the second group comprises complexes that exhibit interaction modes absent in the structural NMR ensembles. These include alternative stable interfaces arising from chain reorientation, as well as highly dynamic interfaces characterized by rapidly exchanging contacts lacking any persistent stabilizing core. Furthermore, the microsecond trajectories captured intermittent dissociation and re-association events where the proteins sampled transient contacts through alternative regions. Overall, leveraging NMR models as a baseline for MD clustering and contact weighting, provides a systematic bioinformatics analysis to solve the atomistic details of flexible interfaces. Beyond categorizing diverse binding behaviors, this approach systematically refines the interaction surfaces across all studied cases, uncovers dynamic features that escape detection in ensemble-averaged NMR structures. 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