dud

For those of us who remember the bicentennial, the semiquincentennial is a complete and utter dud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 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

After all, who wants to share a meal and spend hours with someone who might turn out to be a dud?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

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

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

One of the most public examples of rule-breaking was on display this year in a photo shoot for Interview magazine, where four junior bankers modeled designer duds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

Large numbers of the shells fired were duds; they failed to detonate.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman