dumb
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It’s the making of a perfect joke: totally superfluous and uniquely dumb.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Markwayne Mullin has a brilliantly dumb idea he’s workshopping.
From Slate ● May 30, 2026
As an actor who had to be exceedingly smart to play dumb blondes, she used the shoot to make “a profound statement about her social positioning.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
Finally, Norway's Jonas Lovv rounded off the show with Ya Ya Ya - a big dumb rock song that echoed the sound of 2021 Eurovision champions Måneskin.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
“Everybody at the bus stop says you’re dumb again,” she told him.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
“We’re getting fatter and dumber, and our mental health is deteriorating,” the author writes, which is what “a half century-plus of mass-affluence consumerism has brought us.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
My anxiety about A.I. is not that it will make my job obsolete but that it will make me a little dumber.
From Slate ● May 24, 2026
"Rather than becoming dumber, we are becoming more specialised for the job," said Tania Esparza.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
That didn’t stop him from getting dumber ever since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
The therapist’s tricks might work on a dumber kid, but not me.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
The dumbest phrase in military history is Adolf Hitler saying “Let’s attack Russia in the winter.”
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
In the yet-unwritten history of electric pickups, the Tesla Cybertruck would appear around the end of Chapter One, when things look their darkest—and dumbest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
A spoof is only as successful as its dumbest joke, and these two films have plenty to choose from.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
NBA legend Charles Barkley branded the San Antonio Spurs "the dumbest basketball team in the history of civilisation" after the New York Knicks pulled off the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
“Like, why does everything hurt all the time? Even the dumbest things. Is that normal?”
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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