dumb
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“Just hearing about this dumb $20 burrito debate so just thought I’d make the losers on social media angry before going to bed,” Crenshaw wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 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
At one school in Hampshire, "brick" or "dumb" phones are the only devices allowed, which can only be used to call or text and have very limited internet access.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
“You can think the war is dumb, and also like, kind of not want to miss it, you know what I mean?” he said in February.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
“It’s dumb. But it’s just that, you know, you have the ability to fly and X-ray vision and superstrength and stuff. But sometimes I think it’s probably better to have a really dumb power.”
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
"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
ChatGPT won’t make us dumb and dumber unless we let it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
More than anything else, it offers further evidence that Musk is a lot dumber than he ought to be, given his immense worldly success.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
And besides, she’ll think I’m even dumber than I am.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
A decade ago he called burning fossil fuels “the dumbest experiment in history,” warning they would eventually run out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The dumbest phrase in military history is Adolf Hitler saying “Let’s attack Russia in the winter.”
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 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
Developer and 2022 mayoral candidate Rick Caruso, who has not endorsed in the mayoral race, called the ban “probably the dumbest idea I have ever heard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Which made her feel like the dumbest, weakest girl.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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