dud

I don’t do first-date hikes because I don’t like feeling trapped if the guy’s a dud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

But no, we can confidently report that the Great American State Fair is a big ol’ dud.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Another dud: $125 million authorized in 2022 for Gotion to build an electric-vehicle battery plant employing 2,350 people that was never built.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

It’s the first day of SpaceX trading, and Wall Street has high hopes it’ll provide a lot more excitement than that dud of a World Cup opener.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

It does not matter where it was— what does matter is dud Cochin was the castle where the now childless Elaine lived out her lonely middle age.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Roy’s campaign sent out 180 communications, records show, the bulk of them ads for Instagram and Facebook, where her team said they saw instantly which stories resonated with likely voters and which were duds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Lucasfilm was hit-and-miss under Kennedy—for every Star Wars success story like The Force Awakens, there were duds like Solo, a spinoff that focuses on original trilogy icon Han Solo.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

The Brisbane Courier Mail claimed England are "not even trying anymore", the Advertiser from Adelaide labelled the tourists "rub a dub duds" and Sydney's Daily Telegraph carried the headline "Surfed and Turfed".

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

Office workers weren’t the only fans of these new duds: Gold Rushers who didn’t want to waste time on personal tailoring snapped them up on their way West.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

But when he saw that Mareth looked nervous, too, he stuck the duds in his pocket.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins