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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This drunk moron — quite different from his character in the novel — bears a ton of blame.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But the new parking fees at Balboa Park are a whole new level of stupid.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
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There is nothing in the past year that suggests that the portion of this global event that will take place in the U.S. will proceed with anything less than exhausting chaos, a spoonful of stupid, and a dash of tragedy.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Jan. 2026
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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,
6 Feb. 2026
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With Liverpool pegged back from 2-0 up, there was huge pressure on the youngster when the ball fell to him inside the box after Dominik Szoboszlai’s dummy.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Golem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/golem. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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