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If one had to nail down the central theme of “The Audacity,” aside from pure human foible, it would be the perils posed to privacy by the profitability of data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

"Never For Ever" ultimately produced three Top 20 singles, including the indelible foible "Babooshka."

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2022

“Nathan for You” was zippy, and loath to waste a minute, especially when it could reveal a charming or dumbfounding human foible.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022

Jones happily recites the joke using the other word, and the two men laugh, having been caught in a foible of their profession.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

But in our history the foible of a King avails but little when it clashes with the conscience, the ideal, the will of a people.

From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Furneaux Jordan

“It is infectious to play a character who sees the best in people and isn’t mad at the world for all its foibles and bullies and shadows,” Sudeikis recently told the Hollywood Reporter.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

The river itself becomes a kind of character, silently and impartially overseeing the foibles of humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Brandon Webb is talking the way parents do when their kids aren’t around—tallying their strengths and foibles, failures and wins, and the extent to which his own shortcomings as a father may have contributed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

They focused instead on human experience as it unfolds, moment by uncertain moment, capturing everyday foibles, errors and foolishness in the face of quotidian ruthlessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

“I think these personal foibles of mine were tolerated among many as long as things were going well,” he said.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis