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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

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

Like Dr. Jekyll, Ipkiss transforms into a frenzied alter ego, a character foible that would be similarly replicated in “Me, Myself & Irene,” “Liar Liar” and “Bruce Almighty.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

He, as his own subaltern, was especially bound to indulge this foible.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

“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 foibles of the Mets are so many and so weird that Mets fans themselves have embraced a term for them: LOLMets.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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

Long-married people who are getting on in years do learn to accept one another’s foibles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

Surely I don't have to remind you that our professional duty is not to our own foibles and sentiments, but to the wishes of our employer.'

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro