as in moron
a stupid person
no, you're not a dumbbell—this is one of the hardest courses the school offers
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Recent Examples of dumbbell
Reverse fly exercises − performed with dumbbells or cables − require hinging at the hips or sitting upright while pulling the arms back and outward.
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Daryl Austin, USA Today, 4 Jan. 2026
Greca suggested trying full-body circuit workouts either with dumbbells or body weight.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 10 Dec. 2025
Having a set of dumbbells around—even like 10- or 15-pound weights—is really important for our long-term health.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 9 Dec. 2025
Adding weight doesn’t have to mean jumping straight to dumbbells or other free weights.
—Dana Santas, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
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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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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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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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Dominic Tierney is an expert on losers—in the best possible way.—
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So ahead of Rosenior’s first game in charge of Chelsea, against Charlton in the FA Cup tomorrow evening, The Athletic takes a look at the winners — and absence of losers — in the Chelsea squad.—
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The ordeal generated local headlines, as Berman had to navigate sheer rocks and treacherous terrain in the dark to save the mutt.—
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Having co-created the eponymous pooch, writer Bob Baker retained some of the rights to the character, but crucially not to the design or his connections to a certain Time Lord — hence the extensive makeover and the lack of references to the metal mutt's adventures in space and time.—
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As Ray Winstone might say, what a prat.—
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Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.—
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Its distinct hammerhead front end design gives the midsize sedan an aggressive and sporty look, which is different than the exterior design of previous generations.—
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Keep an eye out for sea turtles, hammerhead sharks, and manta rays.—
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There’s a meathead quality present in all Bigelow films, and here that simplicity lends the film its procedural gravity.—
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Kieron Moore provides the necessary boo-hiss factor as Slovacek, a Czech-American meathead who accepts the comparisons to Ivan Drago as a badge of honor.—
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“Dumbbell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumbbell. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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