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If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.

From Salon ● May 5, 2023

Come December, the predictor will either be wearing a dunce cap or a genius cap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

In my view, the biggest mistake scientists make is to claim that this is all somehow simple and therefore to imply that anyone who doesn't get it is a dunce.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 8, 2021

A guy in a dunce cap is lying on the couch, troubled.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2020

"You're clever, all right. But a common dunce all the same."

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

People who say L.A. has no seasons are unobservant dunces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

The internet abets the problem, he says: Unfiltered by editors, it levels the playing field between experts and "dunces."

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2020

The appeal of getting to play one of Sandler’s dunces was so great that it attracted former cast members Jimmy Fallon and Kristen Wiig, neither of whose time on the show overlapped with Sandler’s:

From Slate ● May 5, 2019

I am currently a senior at Fordham University, the school that your colleague, Mr. Watters, painted as a gated community of dunces through intensive editing and selective exposure in this video. 

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2012

“You are dunces, both of you, believing that rot,” I say.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone