dud

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• Financials have been a dud this year, but health care stocks are well off their March lows.

• The idea is that new small-molecule antiviral drugs could fill these “druggable pockets” so that, once the coronavirus has first entered a patient’s body, it becomes a non-infectious dud that cannot spread.

• Goldman Sachs, for one, had warned back in July that the month of August is historically a low-volume dud.

• We don’t witness the quadrillions of experiments that were absolute duds along the 4 billion year pathway to now.

• We also miss many of the lesser duds, the somewhat duds, and the turned-out-to-be-duds-in-the-end, all of which would be informative but are now lost.

• His clothing line that his friend described as “upscale and urban” was a dud.

• The trade in empty bottles should be as eyebrow-raising as the old Soviet dud-bulb biz.

• The Hollywood Reporter said the film was a dud, but Holmes plays neatly against type.

• She turns in dud stories, misses deadlines, and is prone to occasionally sleeping with her young, struggling musician sources.

• The prank itself seems meaningless, and the reaction was un-extraordinary: all in all, a dud.

• While they were laughing, along came Dud the gum hunter, bearing a chicken with him.

• I wonder if our friend isn't just giving us a wrong steer, or is this what he meant we should find?