stupid
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But on Monday, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts postponed the effective date on the grounds that—and I am paraphrasing here—the rule is mind-bendingly stupid and would create a needless, self-inflicted economic catastrophe.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Root also said he had spoken to his England team-mate about the incident, and expressed his frustration at the "stupid mistakes" that are continually being made.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
For the first half-hour or so I was reflexively covering the brake pedal at intersections and merging lanes, ready to engage if the super-intelligence at the wheel did something stupid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Some of Ullom’s richest themes need only a casual mention, like Fisher muttering that he has fewer photos of his family on his phone than stupid memes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Then I yelled, “You stupid old tree!” and I kicked its trunk as hard as I could so my foot ached something fierce, but I didn’t even whimper.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
“I was a bit stupider back then,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
That’s begun to happen, though in a stupider way than we’d predicted.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2025
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
It was slow and precise and I felt stupider and more ordinary with every coin I dropped.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
“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
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
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
“Of course it isn’t,” Maya muttered, because that was the stupidest thing she’d heard in a while.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
