stupid
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“People reveal who they are over the five episodes. There’s an extraordinary amount of nuance, but if somebody’s saying something stupid, we have that too.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The woman said after Brand left the room she was "just sitting there crying and I felt stupid," adding: "In that moment in time I was just shocked."
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
“I don’t have a technical degree,” he said in a 2005 interview with the National Venture Capital Association, “and I’m just trying to catch up…. So I’m willing to ask the awkward, stupid question.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
You’ve probably heard the phrase It’s the economy, stupid.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
While normally frustrating Elliot was one of my favorite pastimes, today it just made me feel stupid.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
“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
I will admit that since publishing the book, I have been more open to the possibility that social media have been making us stupider.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
I will laugh at the stupidest stuff ever created—send me every video of a cat playing bagpipes on the porch—but this one was yuck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
And talking to him in the stupidest voices,
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 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
And as I made my way through the week, I just stumbled around in the stupidest kind of daze.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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