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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

Mice, it turns out, can’t puke — a little foible that typically makes it difficult to use them to study nausea.

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 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

Those who had plotted his dismissal exaggerated every foible of his life, and invented others, after he was gone, until, by a spiteful blending of fact and fancy, they made him into a monster.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 by Various

“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

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

Writing about their failures, foibles and frustrations did not lessen the hold that these three men and their movie magic have on Fischer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 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