duds
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Costume designer Maya Edmond dresses Big Ant thematically: white tees when he’s trying to be good, black duds when his demons are winning and comic book-y jailbird stripes during his pivotal teenage arrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
With years of data showing that people will rent and watch just about anything, Netflix was free to make a home for all the bombs and duds that it previously offered via snail mail.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Splurging money on last-minute loans who, surprisingly, turn out to be duds.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Amazon’s Fire smartphone and Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating systems were both duds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Large numbers of the shells fired were duds; they failed to detonate.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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