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as in peasants
an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country
a stereotypical depiction of clodhoppers visiting the city for the first time
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as in hulks
a big clumsy often slow-witted person
I do not want that clodhopper handling my rare antiques!
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Karelian bear dogs were originally used by Finnish and Russian peasants as watch dogs and for hunting, according to the American Kennel Club.
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In the early nineteenth century, after Egyptian peasants happened upon ancient fragments, archaeologists began to look in such places for pieces of manuscript, which could vary in size from a few letters to a slice of text.
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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Lenders will take the keys and private equity will take its lumps, as designed.
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The island village is beset by sea hags, serial killers, creepy clowns and other evils that interfere with Tom’s dream of turning Widow’s Bay into a Martha’s Vineyard-like tourist destination.
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Bunch of virtue signaling clowns!
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But what happens next is deeply dependent on who AI’s winners (and losers) are.
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But fans who wanted to see an exciting draft night filled with trades for talent as opposed to trades being made for complicated financial minutiae reasons were probably losers.
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So a bunch of hicks from Topeka were left up to our own devices of going down to Robert Hall and finding something that might be kind of cool.
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This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.
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Kids, let’s face it, are idiots by nature, and that’s not their fault.
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It was left to the feds in Boston to arrest Farwell, after Meatball’s local yokels adamantly refused to do anything other than try to broom the crime by one of their own.
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There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.
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The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.
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“Clodhoppers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clodhoppers. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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