grumpy
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“Trips to China have made me grumpy and given me a bad attitude toward American-market EVs,” wrote Kevin Williams at InsideEVs.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
"If you want to speak to one of them at three in the morning, you know, they won't be grumpy or tell you to stop texting them."
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
Instead, grumpy naysayers say our brains conduct “cognitive offload.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
With Musk in place and chasing his record payday, grumpy valuation math can give way for now to open-ended optimism about Tesla’s robo future.
From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025
She looks sort of grumpy, but who can blame her?
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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