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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schlemiels
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But what happens next is deeply dependent on who AI’s winners (and losers) are.
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But fans who wanted to see an exciting draft night filled with trades for talent as opposed to trades being made for complicated financial minutiae reasons were probably losers.
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Maybe the Trumps are right and my family boasts a lot of chumps, sending six men off to World War II alone.
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Miller has always taken the American people for brainless, heartless chumps lost in a swamp of nostalgia who’ll believe whatever Trumpworld tells them to.
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And the livestock barns and show rings will feature baby lambs and goats, along with steers, chickens and turkeys.
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Jessica sometimes looks out her window in the morning and sees turkeys walking around or even an aoudad sheep or two.
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This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.
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Kids, let’s face it, are idiots by nature, and that’s not their fault.
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According to the authors, their results suggest that clods of earth can indeed catalyze these reactions without the presence of life.
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After loosening the soil, gently lift the clump out of the ground and remove any soil clods.
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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.
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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.
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Woke scolds and anti-woke dolts alike objected to the image of Carpenter kneeling in front of a man who appears to be using her hair as a leash.
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August is when blockheads get cut.
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“Schlemiels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schlemiels. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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