dud

For those of us who remember the bicentennial, the semiquincentennial is a complete and utter dud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

But no, we can confidently report that the Great American State Fair is a big ol’ dud.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

It’s the first day of SpaceX trading, and Wall Street has high hopes it’ll provide a lot more excitement than that dud of a World Cup opener.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

With the hotly anticipated SpaceX offering imminent, it’s apt that a rare dud in Elon Musk’s sprawling business empire is called The Boring Company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

According to the newspaper, SmartMart’s grand opening was a big old dud.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

But many ideas thrown around online are duds or, worse, scams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Roy’s campaign sent out 180 communications, records show, the bulk of them ads for Instagram and Facebook, where her team said they saw instantly which stories resonated with likely voters and which were duds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Lucasfilm was hit-and-miss under Kennedy—for every Star Wars success story like The Force Awakens, there were duds like Solo, a spinoff that focuses on original trilogy icon Han Solo.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

The United States has a sophisticated testing system that doesn’t require setting off explosions, and when it comes to deterrence, nobody in the world assumes that America’s arsenal is full of duds.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025

Large numbers of the shells fired were duds; they failed to detonate.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman