stupid
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It does so by treating the technology as stupid, musicians as creative artists and the audience as capable of opening its collective mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
On some level, and to some people, it is all stupid and pointless.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
There have been, it seems, a thousand flashes in the pan: Beto O’Rourke’s rolled-up shirtsleeves, Anthony Weiner’s city-kid mouthiness, Graham Platner’s stupid little butch mustache.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
"I believe he's not a stupid man but the fact is he says stupid things to get votes," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Small powers. Never mind. It’s too stupid to talk about.”
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
“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
I will admit that since publishing the book, I have been more open to the possibility that social media have been making us stupider.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
I’d like to know how she’s done it, this trick with my brother that’s turned him into a stupider, more nervous identical twin of himself.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
“I thought it was the stupidest idea,” said actress Mink Stole, who appeared in all of Waters’s feature films.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
I was like, “Oh my God — we are the two stupidest human beings on the face of the earth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
“I’m the stupidest fellow that was ever born; you know that. I couldn’t remember to come back here even after you made up that special lovely rhyme for me.”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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