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
Single Arm Dumbbell Row The dumbbell row targets your rear delts and also works your main back muscles.
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Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
Grip the dumbbell in a palm-down position.
—Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025
Multiple mirrors lined the walls alongside the reformers, with each machine accompanied by a mat and a Bosu ball, while a weight rack sat in a corner, no dumbbell heavier than 10 pounds.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
Some participants use dumbbells to weigh down their water lilies, while others use bricks, sandbags, or even cheesecakes.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dumbbell
Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
Grip the dumbbell in a palm-down position.
—Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025
Multiple mirrors lined the walls alongside the reformers, with each machine accompanied by a mat and a Bosu ball, while a weight rack sat in a corner, no dumbbell heavier than 10 pounds.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
Some participants use dumbbells to weigh down their water lilies, while others use bricks, sandbags, or even cheesecakes.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dumbbell
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumbbell
Noun
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Only a moron would cut the funding of an industry that actually brings revenue into the government’s pocket.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
18 Sep. 2025
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Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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After a delightful dummy past Gravenberch, Grealish set up a chance from which Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall should at least have hit the target.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
21 Sep. 2025
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Harold Lloyd is the title rookie who gets to Tate University looking for football glory and maybe a girlfriend, too, and quickly becomes the resident tackling dummy in a template for sports and college comedies that followed.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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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The loser’s path becomes that much more formidable.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
25 Sep. 2025
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Tech companies, which have relied on H-1Bs for years, could be the biggest losers under the new rules.—
Patricia Lopez,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, teaching them to play about as well as a seven-year-old human.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
26 Aug. 2025
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So while the French Bulldog nabbed the AKC's top spot for the third year in a row, the winner using Rover's set of criteria was clear: the ever-popular mixed breed — or as many dog lovers affectionately call them, a good old-fashioned mutt.—
Sarah Scanlan,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 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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Elphinstone Reef consistently ranks among the world’s best dive sites thanks to its abundance of healthy soft corals and frequent shark sightings, including the chance to see everything from thresher sharks to scalloped hammerheads.—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
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We are not meant to be hammerheads in a world of nails.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
10 Sep. 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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“Dumbbell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumbbell. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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