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
"In Srinagar, I was a dumb boy from Ladakh who could not speak Hindi or English," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
It’s the making of a perfect joke: totally superfluous and uniquely dumb.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Louella turned the stroller over and looked underneath it as if she thought Howard might have fallen through, which was pretty dumb.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
But then they made Woody be a little more understanding and Buzz a little, forgive the word, dumber.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
That didn’t stop him from getting dumber ever since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 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
It’s something much bigger than that, much dumber and much worse.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025
Lucinda looks at me as if I’m a lot dumber than she thought I was.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
Collectively, they stand as a blunt reminder that war, the dumbest and most vicious human invention, occurs in time and space.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 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
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
Of all the dumb things to say, that was perhaps the dumbest.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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