stupid
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Industry friends won’t unless they’re either a saint, a sap or just stupid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
It’s hard to use a bullhorn in rock ‘n’ roll without looking stupid or overly dramatic, and it’s another testimony to Shannon’s presentation that you just nodded: of course there would be a bullhorn.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Was this an act of stupid rebellion carrying over from a terrible childhood?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But on Monday, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts postponed the effective date on the grounds that—and I am paraphrasing here—the rule is mind-bendingly stupid and would create a needless, self-inflicted economic catastrophe.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Obviously, those future versions of ourselves had known that we were going to end up in the stupid partner program, so why hadn’t they just told us what was coming?
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
“I was a bit stupider back then,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
“When they need to make stupid stupider, they send me up. I’m part comedian, I’m part activist, I’m part artist. I just want a better society,” Stevens said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Other news reports more definitively declared that, yes, ChatGPT is becoming stupider.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 2, 2023
"They will do what he did," Matsson says, referring to Logan, "but they will do it stupider and uglier and less amenable."
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
Whatever stupid research she’s done that might suggest the Ranch is a bad place to live is wrong, so I’ll answer her even stupider questions honestly to prove it.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
I will laugh at the stupidest stuff ever created—send me every video of a cat playing bagpipes on the porch—but this one was yuck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
A cartoon maritime odyssey, powered by what Ricky Wilson called "the stupidest riff you ever heard", it became one of the first independent hits on the American new wave scene, selling more than 20,000 copies.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
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
Tam Lin said turkeys were the stupidest birds in the world.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
