dud

Should you tell a friend their new boyfriend is a dud?

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

After all, who wants to share a meal and spend hours with someone who might turn out to be a dud?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

It was another dud, its 110-kiloton blast barely visible to observers watching from naval vessels on the fog-shrouded horizon.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

With years of data showing that people will rent and watch just about anything, Netflix was free to make a home for all the bombs and duds that it previously offered via snail mail.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Splurging money on last-minute loans who, surprisingly, turn out to be duds.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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

But when he saw that Mareth looked nervous, too, he stuck the duds in his pocket.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins