dumb
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She didn’t fight the dumb clichés that early on gathered around her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
"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
“Best friends don’t let each other do dumb things by themselves. And that includes dumb things like…” She gestures around us.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
“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
That didn’t stop him from getting dumber ever since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
I never new before that I was dumber than a mouse.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
This was easily the dumbest head coaching call of McVay’s career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
“This is the dumbest, most ridiculous lawsuit I’ve ever seen,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The dumbest phrase in military history is Adolf Hitler saying “Let’s attack Russia in the winter.”
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
I’m telling her what every boy in Prentisstown knows, the history even the dumbest farm boy like yours truly knows by heart.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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