dumb
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So ditch the ball for some dumb bells and squats and get to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“You don’t want to give them a reason to say no,” his father told him, “especially a dumb one.”
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 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
And why do grown-ups always say dumb things like “Don’t worry.”
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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
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
An interesting research question for future generations of economics doctoral students would be whether publishing quarterly forecasts actually makes the Fed dumber.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
That didn’t stop him from getting dumber ever since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
Lucinda looks at me as if I’m a lot dumber than she thought I was.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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
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
A spoof is only as successful as its dumbest joke, and these two films have plenty to choose from.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
I told Billy that was about the dumbest thing I’d ever heard.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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