as in idiots
a stupid person
we despair of ever getting those hammerheads to buckle their seat belts without prodding
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Recent Examples of hammerheads
These include Caribbean reef sharks, oceanic white tips, great hammerheads, tiger sharks and bull sharks.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
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
We are not meant to be hammerheads in a world of nails.
—Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
Smooth hammerheads and blacktip sharks spent comparatively more time near the surface, whereas white sharks, spinner sharks, and dusky sharks were active throughout much of the water column.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Chuuk Lagoon offers rare opportunities to explore sunken battleships, planes, and submarines teeming with marine life like scalloped hammerheads, blue ring octopuses, and colorful nudibranchs.
—Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2025
Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
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
We are not meant to be hammerheads in a world of nails.
—Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
Smooth hammerheads and blacktip sharks spent comparatively more time near the surface, whereas white sharks, spinner sharks, and dusky sharks were active throughout much of the water column.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Chuuk Lagoon offers rare opportunities to explore sunken battleships, planes, and submarines teeming with marine life like scalloped hammerheads, blue ring octopuses, and colorful nudibranchs.
—Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hammerheads
Noun
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This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.—
Kyle Wagner,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2026
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Kids, let’s face it, are idiots by nature, and that’s not their fault.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2026
Noun
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There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.—
McKay Coppins,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 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
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Through the fuzz and the bad camera angles emerges an extraordinary catalogue of dummies, flicks, and feints, a hodge-podge of silly tricks.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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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
Noun
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To get a sentence like that in a communist, radically left-wing city of liberal lunatics is truly amazing.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio wasn’t far behind, saying the war is being waged against religious lunatics.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026
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Not that hard to leave the little mutts at home for the grocery store trip.—
Joe Kinsey OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
26 May 2026
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For starters, there are the cost savings of getting one of these not-so-in-demand mutts.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Hammerheads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hammerheads. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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