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
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.
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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
Species include the Caribbean reef shark, oceanic white tips, great hammerheads, tiger sharks and bull sharks.
—Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 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
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
Species include the Caribbean reef shark, oceanic white tips, great hammerheads, tiger sharks and bull sharks.
—Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 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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His strict and meticulous methodologies taught some of the smartest people on the planet how to behave like complete idiots, paving the way for a new generation of red-nosed fools to pratfall onto the stage.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2026
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Franchises are lost because of proud idiots.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
3 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
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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.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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The trophies handed out during the Grammys presentation are dummies that are reused each year.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
30 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Greta Bjornson,
PEOPLE,
23 Dec. 2025
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Beating these lunatics was incredible, right?—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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Shame on the leadership of Minnesota — and the lunatics in the street.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Two dogs came into the living room to inspect the uproar, mutts from the reservation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, teaching them to play about as well as a seven-year-old human.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Hammerheads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hammerheads. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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