dud
Example Sentences
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The promotional tour for the film was the first clue it was going to be a box office dud.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
‘I’m completely disgusted by the lack of accountability’: I bought a dud mattress — twice.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 31, 2026
So, on a purely mechanical level, Dokoupil’s debut was a massive dud.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026
But it is losing a string of engineers and designers to high-paying rivals, while its Vision Pro product—a full virtual-reality headset as opposed to lightweight glasses—looks to have been a dud.
From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025
Kat surprises Tjaden endeavouring with perfect equanimity to knock the driving-band off a dud.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Vocabulary lists containing dud
Back-Words: Palindromes
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