dunce
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If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.
From Salon ● May 5, 2023
Recall children in dunce caps, perjurers in pillories, adulterers branded with scarlet letters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
Now he’s the guy who sat on that bar stool in Columbus, the bully who berated his kicker, the dunce who thought Andre Cisco was playing when he wasn’t.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
Come December, the predictor will either be wearing a dunce cap or a genius cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
A funnel of mosquitoes, like an inverted dunce cap, whined over her head.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
People who say L.A. has no seasons are unobservant dunces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
So instead of bridging that expertise gap, surrounding himself with proficiency, he’s done the opposite: boost his own comparative abilities by surrounding himself with a confederacy of dunces.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2020
The internet abets the problem, he says: Unfiltered by editors, it levels the playing field between experts and "dunces."
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2020
“That’s not a strategy I agree with either, by the way,” she said — because kids at the bottom may be made to feel, in front of the whole school, like dunces.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
“You are dunces, both of you, believing that rot,” I say.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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