stupid
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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
Some of Ullom’s richest themes need only a casual mention, like Fisher muttering that he has fewer photos of his family on his phone than stupid memes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Tapper reminded Cassidy that the senator previously called for someone to challenge “crazy stupid things” that undermine confidence in immunization and asked whether Trump’s statements qualified.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
This might sound harsh, but I think that logic is, flatly, stupid.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
My face is burning as I stand there, feeling stupid.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
“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
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
Always they were the scrawniest or the ugliest or the dirtiest or the stupidest boys, picked on by everyone else, with no one left uglier or stupider than they but her.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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
That is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
And as I made my way through the week, I just stumbled around in the stupidest kind of daze.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
