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dumb

adjective as in having or using no voice

adjective as in stupid, unintelligent

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“He could dumb down the important things,” she said, “so that we would leave the church service or leave the lecture taking something with us.”

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Amazon’s Alexa+ and Google’s Gemini aim to fix that, by making smart homes less dumb.

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Guadagnino makes Hank look so shady that it feels like a taunt: We’re dumb if we trust Hank and doubly dumb if he’s innocent.

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“I was happy to hear it wasn’t some dumb teenagers, because we thought that it was fireworks,” said Matt Kunitz, who lives in Pacific Palisades.

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If Boy Kavalier had ever been a boy, he might have recognized what a dumb move that was.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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