stupid
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There have been, it seems, a thousand flashes in the pan: Beto O’Rourke’s rolled-up shirtsleeves, Anthony Weiner’s city-kid mouthiness, Graham Platner’s stupid little butch mustache.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
"I believe he's not a stupid man but the fact is he says stupid things to get votes," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“It’s so stupid and it’s changed my voice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
“I don’t want to like him. I like him for some stupid reason.”
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
Apparently my real ignorance began to show; after a while Lieutenant Rahms stopped making notes of my hopelessly stupid answers.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
“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
At the 2024 Sarajevo Film Festival, Payne shot down allegations that he’d lifted major elements of the script from Stephenson’s “Frisco,” calling the accusation “the stupidest thing in the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
In New York magazine, John Simon said there was “a very strong probability” that it was “the stupidest major movie ever made.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon were all big and stupid, but as Dudley was the biggest and stupidest of the lot, he was the leader.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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