stupid
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“If we show that robots are kind of clumsy and a little stupid right now, it puts people at ease.”
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
That was petulant, that was stupid and he could have cost his side.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
It falls to Wilson’s exceedingly average Joe to save a world too stupid to save itself.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
For the first half-hour or so I was reflexively covering the brake pedal at intersections and merging lanes, ready to engage if the super-intelligence at the wheel did something stupid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Which was stupid if you’re not a hero, and I wish I’d never done it and I especially wish that I’d never ever wished that you were my father instead of Jack.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
“I was a bit stupider back then,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Other news reports more definitively declared that, yes, ChatGPT is becoming stupider.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 2, 2023
Otherwise, the whole room gets stupider and stupider.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
What could he say: I thought up an even stupider conspiracy than yours, and even though I can’t prove it’s true, I’m still afraid it will kill you?
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
“It’ll feel stupider when you chuck an air ball in front of a million people.”
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
In New York magazine, John Simon said there was “a very strong probability” that it was “the stupidest major movie ever made.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
And talking to him in the stupidest voices,
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Some pundits might be calling it “the most important chart in the world,” Perkins said, but in reality, it is closer to “the stupidest chart in the world.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
That’s “completely bogus,” writes TS Lombard Managing Director Dario Perkins, who calls it “the stupidest chart in the world.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
“That’s two questions. Yes, you do. He died fishing. He fell off a boat. Isn’t that the stupidest thing you ever heard?”
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
