stupid
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In the footage, officers can be heard calling the defendant's actions "stupid".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Shockingly, the letter seems to be pushing for a return to standardized tests by, in effect, arguing that a growing percentage of their students are simply too stupid to succeed, no matter what professors do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Afterwards she could have been thinking, “That was a stupid thing to say!”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
That’s most likely to happen not because you’re stupid or greedy, but because you’re vulnerable—and because the con artist knows exactly how to fabricate trustworthiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
But a few minutes later, Lou Ann’s stupid haircut looks way cool.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
“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
But Nenny, who is stupider, already is asking how much and I can see her fingers going for the quarters in her pants pocket.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
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
That is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Diaz Castellano looked at me as if I had asked the stupidest question in the world.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
