stupid
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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
“I mean, she thinks we’re stupid, that’s really what it comes down to,” he said later.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
That would be incredibly stupid since she’d done the exact same thing to me once.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
“I was a bit stupider back then,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Harris was also tasked with responding to Trump’s second lie, which was subtler but stupider.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024
“When they need to make stupid stupider, they send me up. I’m part comedian, I’m part activist, I’m part artist. I just want a better society,” Stevens said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Other news reports more definitively declared that, yes, ChatGPT is becoming stupider.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 2, 2023
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
“I was like, ‘That is the stupidest looking bait I have ever seen in my life,’” Anaya says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
A cartoon maritime odyssey, powered by what Ricky Wilson called "the stupidest riff you ever heard", it became one of the first independent hits on the American new wave scene, selling more than 20,000 copies.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
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
That’s “completely bogus,” writes TS Lombard Managing Director Dario Perkins, who calls it “the stupidest chart in the world.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
“So,” he said, “the stupidest things can be set to music. You’d be better off learning love songs.”
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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