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An underrated gem — not enough people have seen this top-tier season — Squirrels Trip has some fabulous vocals, very funny lyrics, a heavy dose of stupid, and an engaging story.Barry Levitt, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
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The stupid!Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
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As teens, the two flaxen-haired boys were naturals at making funny and engaging Vines, the six-second video app that was a precursor to TikTok.Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
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When Longoria auditioned, she was mainly known for her stint on The Young and the Restless (2001–2003) and turned out to be a natural for the part.Danny Horn, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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That end would be a story not so different from the one told by Miles Davis of his encounter with a know-nothing politician’s wife at a White House reception.Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
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Before appointing Satoshi Morimoto, one of Japan's top national security experts, the current prime minister tapped two know-nothing legislators for the post of defense minister -- a result of paying more attention to party politics than a prospect's ability or vision.Takashi Yokota, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2012
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Many still hunters use a step-step-pause cadence to mimic a deer waking or will cluck on a turkey call occasionally while scratching the leaves with a boot.Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
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Hypnotists hush our brains’ analytic tendencies: Shhhh, stop worrying about your tax return and cluck like a chicken.Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
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Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy.Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2016
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Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government.Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2016
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Fey didn’t write this uneven comedy, but it’s got some of the same sophisticated satire of big-city elites that 30 Rock exudes, and Martin has a ball playing a pompous numbskull who doesn’t know that ponytails have been over for more than a decade.Will Leitch, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
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Contra-stereotype, Finkel estimates that only ten per cent of meatheads are numbskulls.Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
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Back in 1848, being called a goose was like being called a dunderhead.Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2024
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But don't be too quick to write off these tiny critters as dunderheads.Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
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Think of it as Game’s version of something like a spinach artichoke dip.Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2024
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The 2023 inflow was 11% below 2022, the largest one-year percentage-point dip in the past two decades.Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Dumb cluck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumb%20cluck. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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