stupid
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“You can pay some stupid broker,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
On some level, and to some people, it is all stupid and pointless.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
"I was thinking me and him had a mutual understanding, and now I feel so stupid," she raged.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Which means, in essence, we will never be able to be so stupid again.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Then Katherine complained, “That’s a stupid comparison. A nuclear explosion in Kansas City would kill all the stolen babies, too.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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“I was a bit stupider back then,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
That’s begun to happen, though in a stupider way than we’d predicted.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2025
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
“I’m sorry?” he adds, which sounds even stupider.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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At the 2024 Sarajevo Film Festival, Payne shot down allegations that he’d lifted major elements of the script from Stephenson’s “Frisco,” calling the accusation “the stupidest thing in the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
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
He said: "We send Uganda money to plant trees as well, because we won that competition, who can find the stupidest use of taxpayers' money"
From BBC ● Jun. 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
Which may be the stupidest thing I’ve ever said to another human being, but it makes her laugh some more.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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