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
Chiang’s storytelling is rooted in age-old tropes and references — the Old Testament, golems, Victoriana, high school algebra.
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Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The Patron exists as a flying golem at first, then once it's taken enough damage, becomes a stationary orb.
—Omar L. Gallaga, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
The silent years were stalked by German versions of golems and vampires, while an American makeup wizard named Lon Chaney gave fright a face — or rather, a gallery of faces.
—A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
The big basket-o-fire golems seen in the last gameplay trailer are on the move, and Mesmer, the seeming big bad of this DLC, is triumphant.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
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There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.—
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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.—
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
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Becker, 31, is one of the few young adults pursuing the fading art, which sees her sharing a stage with two dummies named Jerry and Ronnie.—
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Step inside the plant with these photos to see the step-by-step process of developing the dummies.—
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“Golem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/golem. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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