stupid
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But no editor in the world could recut something like “Gail Daughtry” into a two-minute preview that accurately conveys just how joyous and stupid this film is.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
He said he tried to not make “a stupid action film.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
However, while I am brave when it comes to my predictions, I am not stupid - well, not all the time anyway - which is why I am going for the favourites here.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Shockingly, the letter seems to be pushing for a return to standardized tests by, in effect, arguing that a growing percentage of their students are simply too stupid to succeed, no matter what professors do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Mary Lou looked puzzled, and Jeremy realized it had been a stupid question.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
“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
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
It was slow and precise and I felt stupider and more ordinary with every coin I dropped.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
He said: "We send Uganda money to plant trees as well, because we won that competition, who can find the stupidest use of taxpayers' money"
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
This is the stupidest thing I’ve done in recent memory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025
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
Why had I, stupidest of women, not told him?
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
