dud
Example Sentences
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His first foray into Pennsylvania was, as Salon’s Sophia Tesfaye noted, a dud.
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2026
‘I’m completely disgusted by the lack of accountability’: I bought a dud mattress — twice.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 31, 2026
So, on a purely mechanical level, Dokoupil’s debut was a massive dud.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026
She passed on dud iterations with the ruthless efficiency of a casting director who makes actors cry at auditions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025
She’d gotten a dud of a daughter who ripped her way out in the world and had done nothing but disappoint her ever since.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
Vocabulary lists containing dud
Back-Words: Palindromes
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Essential Three-Letter Words, Part 3
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Scrabble: Palindrome Words
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