rube
Example Sentences
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If you have been investing since your 20s, you’re hardly a rube where your portfolio is concerned.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026
Come for the Rube Goldberg machines, leave feeling like a rube.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025
De Shields-Moon quickly found herself buying loads of clothes not to look like a rube in her new hometown.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023
But you don’t have to be a rube about it.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022
New York looked as cold and hard to me as it does to any rube that slinks in from the outlands, crazy with the desire to capture it.
From Alex the Great by Brown, Arthur William
Vocabulary lists containing rube
Inherit the Wind
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Jonathan Demme (1944-2017) Tribute List
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Water for Elephants
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