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
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
The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The Dodgers spend it smarter than anyone else and the Mets, arguably, dumber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Heath, for one, thinks docking would make fine TV: “I’ve seen a lot of dumber stuff…. We’ve got to be more exciting than lawn-mower races.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
"Rather than becoming dumber, we are becoming more specialised for the job," said Tania Esparza.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Minho glanced up at him with a look that said he was dumber than cow klunk.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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
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
It was one of the all-time dumbest things I’d ever done.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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