as in moron
a stupid person
no, you're not a dumbbell—this is one of the hardest courses the school offers
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Recent Examples of dumbbell
Building strong biceps doesn’t have to exclusively involve curling a set of dumbbells until you’re utterly exhausted.
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Alyssa Ages, Outside Online, 28 June 2025
The lawsuit details the use of a weightlifting belt and dumbbells during the incident and alleges that racial slurs and death threats were made.
—Theo Karantsalis, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
Select a pair of light dumbbells and stand with your feet just beyond shoulder-width apart.
—Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
Even the best weights sets like adjustable dumbbells or even resistance bands can’t provide the same amount of versatility and effectiveness as sandbags.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 June 2025
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Alyssa Ages, Outside Online, 28 June 2025
The lawsuit details the use of a weightlifting belt and dumbbells during the incident and alleges that racial slurs and death threats were made.
—Theo Karantsalis, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
Select a pair of light dumbbells and stand with your feet just beyond shoulder-width apart.
—Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
Even the best weights sets like adjustable dumbbells or even resistance bands can’t provide the same amount of versatility and effectiveness as sandbags.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for dumbbell
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumbbell
Noun
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Each year, fire safety officials warn of the dangers of fireworks and stage demonstrations of dummies that catch fire and watermelons that explode.—
Linda Trischitta,
Sun-Sentinel.com,
10 July 2017
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Zuby said the Tesla Model S didn’t have a strong enough safety belt, and a dummy used to simulate a driver in the small overlap test moved too far forward during the crash, striking its head on the steering wheel.—
Diana Kruzman,
USA TODAY,
6 July 2017
Noun
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
Drew Broussard
May 22,
Literary Hub,
22 May 2025
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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With existing sanctions on Russia and potentially new ones at stake, the eventual outcome of the Trump-Putin summit will create winners and losers in the energy space.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
15 Aug. 2025
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Legislative appropriations committees could — and did — secretly decide which bills would reach the floors of both houses and just announce the winners and losers without explanation.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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So Bull does what any sensible, testicle-loving mutt would do.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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The phrase has become shorthand for a kind of national inferiority syndrome—a sense that Brazil, despite its grand ambitions and global flair, thinks of itself as a mutt trying to hang with pedigrees.—
Shannon Sims,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
Noun
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As Ray Winstone might say, what a prat.—
Holman W. Jenkins,
WSJ,
29 Mar. 2022
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Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.—
Lester Fabian Brathwaite,
EW.com,
24 Mar. 2022
Noun
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, great hammerhead sharks are common sharks that inhabit the open ocean and the shallow coastal waters of both the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of Florida.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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This tiger shark sighting comes after hammerhead sharks were spotted off the Bay State coast.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
23 July 2025
Noun
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Hogan also had a personality that connected with the audience as something more than a one-dimensional, meathead heel.—
Marc Raimondi
June 25,
Literary Hub,
25 June 2025
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To that end, Moss found a perfect workout partner and meathead muse back in Des Moines.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
12 June 2025
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Kaitlyn Santa Juana plays a college student who learns that her grandmother cheated Death decades ago, and now that jerk is coming to take out her whole family via various creatively gnarly, Rube Goldberg-esque kills.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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Mid-performance, the prop jerks downward after slipping from its wire, causing a drop that nearly unseats her.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
19 July 2025
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“Dumbbell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumbbell. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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