simple-minded
Example Sentences
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One is the committee’s single-minded, indeed simple-minded, focus on the direct effect of the proposals on the federal deficit and national debt.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
"This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence," she said.
From BBC • Jul. 14, 2024
Xist consists of RNA, a substance best known for being a simple-minded messenger that shuttles genes' instructions for making proteins to the intracellular machines that make them.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024
AI's more simple-minded forebears helped me unearth stories that would've otherwise remained hidden: I've scraped niche data from government websites, preserved fleeting public records and parsed unwieldy troves of campaign finance reports.
From Salon • May 21, 2023
Years before, I would have considered him too obvious, too dull, practically simple-minded.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
