dumb
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"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Even as propaganda, it was pretty dumb — never discounting for currency fluctuation, alternative sourcing or domestic capacity increases, to name a few counterindicators.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Not the joke, which was dumb the way 15-year-olds are dumb.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
But if you’re honest, you also loved watching the guy dumb enough to buy it fume over the futility of his impulses.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
“You always want to give things dumb, obvious names,” Janie said.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
Advertising student Catalina Cruz, 19, thinks AI is "making us dumber" because "people aren't able to think for themselves any more".
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Dodgers spend it smarter than anyone else and the Mets, arguably, dumber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
Artificial general intelligence is moments away, they say, and we’ll all soon be dumber than ChatGPT.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
“But we sure made a lot out of it, and the boys were dumber than we were.”
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Rahmani said in his opinion, Davis would "go down as one of the world's dumbest criminals", who likely would have never have faced charges if he had stayed silent.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
Audrey had this way of making you feel like the dumbest person in the room.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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