schmuck
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SpaceX is so big that lots of funds would have bought SpaceX at almost any price in order not to trail the benchmark and look dumb—so-called schmuck insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Was Kiritsis a narcissistic madman or a schmuck who’d put too much trust in the American ideals of hard work and fair treatment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
"They called me the schmuck from Hanover," he laughs.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2023
"He turned out to be the biggest schmuck I've ever met," she said.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2023
He promised me he would be there, that schmuck.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Up to this point, Judge’s filmography was exceedingly kind, willing to dig deeper and find humanity in an entire universe of schmucks and mediocrities.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
And on the sublime Mariners Apartment Complex, she even addresses the people - critics, boyfriends, record-industry bigwigs - who "mistook my kindness for weakness", the not-exactly-hidden subtext being: "That won't happen again, schmucks."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023
“And we’re the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2018
“We’re the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play a couple of schmucks who manage to make big bucks in the international arms trade in the fact-based 2016 dark comedy "War Dogs."
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2017