as in idiot
a stupid person
the supervisor was a golem who never had an unprogrammed thought in her life
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Recent Examples of golem
The rabbi and his golem, Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, the scientist and his cyborg.
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Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
Image These stories follow age-old templates — the fairy godmother, the gentle giant, the golem that breaks its master’s control.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Chiang’s storytelling is rooted in age-old tropes and references — the Old Testament, golems, Victoriana, high school algebra.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Here our fears are surely shaped by old myths like the golem of Jewish folklore, a being fashioned from clay that threatened to overwhelm its creator.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2014
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Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
Image These stories follow age-old templates — the fairy godmother, the gentle giant, the golem that breaks its master’s control.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Chiang’s storytelling is rooted in age-old tropes and references — the Old Testament, golems, Victoriana, high school algebra.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Here our fears are surely shaped by old myths like the golem of Jewish folklore, a being fashioned from clay that threatened to overwhelm its creator.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for golem
Noun
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Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.—
Colm Tóibín,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
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This drunk moron — quite different from his character in the novel — bears a ton of blame.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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My dad has always said the lottery is a tax on the stupid.—
Alex Crippen,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2026
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The scale of the headloss was best summed up by Luis Suarez attempting to reason with Messi, before the Argentine did anything on the Suarez scale of stupid.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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More than a dozen city, county and state agencies worked together, deploying drones, using dummies as cadavers, and taking on the roles of victims, triage and others to make the drill as realistic as possible.—
Mark Prussin,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Using both an 800-pound horse dummy and live horses, RSF Fire personnel learned the basics about safety around horses during emergencies, useful steps to stabilize a horse prior to a formal rescue team’s arrival, and how Rancho Santa Fe personnel can support a large animal rescue unit on scene.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Golem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/golem. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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