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Given some of Trump’s most problematic remarks about Ukraine, this hope may not have been completely fatuous.—
Daniel Fried,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025 -
The fatuous Fed/1930s narrative raises a basic question: why are successful investors paid so well?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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Redmayne brings a sweetly doltish everyman energy to this increasingly off-kilter affair, with much of the dialogue between him and his co-stars (including Stratton-Twine as the missing woman’s slacker brother) improvised in disarmingly shaggy fashion.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
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Thatcher plays disfigured, suicidal young protagonist P Burke who is hired by a mega tech corporation to virtually operate a beautiful but brainless ‘flesh body’ called Delphi, grown in a lab with the sole purpose of influencing the masses and selling products.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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Miller has always taken the American people for brainless, heartless chumps lost in a swamp of nostalgia who’ll believe whatever Trumpworld tells them to.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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Nina is introduced as the seemingly vacuous trophy wife of Nile, a man who secretly murdered his first wife — and Nina’s former boss — Madison (Leila George) in a fit of passion.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
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Ample use of soft materials help with sound absorption in the vacuous space.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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The patient was brain-dead, and the procedure, which was performed in China, was a trial, but the organs — from a pig genetically modified to improve compatibility with human immune systems — were not immediately rejected.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
7 June 2026
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Vargas Arellano was in a hospital, brain-dead and comatose for a week before ICE released him, and had contracted COVID-19 at the facility, according to his family and their lawyers, who are suing GEO Group over his death.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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But even the most perfect Constitution can be undone by the wicked with the help of the bought, the stupid, and the cowardly.—
Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
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White can believe Hokit said something stupid and still believe fighters should be allowed to speak for themselves.—
Dan Zaksheske OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2026
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Along for the ride is his fawning, idiotic buddy Stevie (Steve Little).—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
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That’s been an idiotic trope for too long — that participating in the business side of it taints you.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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The lesson was not that the models were unintelligent.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
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More and more people are avoiding dating or befriending those with opposing political views, and growing numbers describe those on the other side as closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent.—
Justin Callais,
Twin Cities,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Cretinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cretinous. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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