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Another risk is the rise of deepfakes – AI-made pictures and videos of people that look real – which can be used to fool the public.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

And I’m no fool; having seen all of Anderson’s “Resident Evil” films, I know they are not created equal.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

They haven’t been able to fool the detection systems yet, but they are getting closer, says Brian Becker, a director of product at Cloudflare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

She missed a day of work, she was played for a fool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The fool took his opportunity to escape from the cliff’s edge, heading away from Håkon and yelling as he pulled more watery missiles out of the river.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

All of the king’s men were experienced soldiers; none were fools or the moronic redcoats so often caricatured in American mythology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

“We as carbon-based fools will spend our money empathizing and caring about silicon-based creations,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

That may have been outré to a middle and high-schooler trying to be cool, but at some point post-college, the Chili Peppers became synonymous with sweaty fools passing out in strip mall parking lots.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

Supposed experts have been made to look like fools.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

“You’re not suffocating, toiling in a building like city fools up north.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Nor should anyone be fooled by the smiley-faced icon Meta chose to represent Muse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

A difficult job market appeared to show improvement near the end of summer with a surprisingly big increase in employment, but don’t be fooled: Hiring in the U.S. is still unusually tepid.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Don't be fooled, though, as she has a wealth of experience of managing relationships under intense public pressure from her girl group days.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The jury duty scam targeted David Schwind’s daughter, but initially fooled him, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

“You could’ve fooled me. He has her power. He controls her weapon. He recognized me. He even answered all my test questions correctly! Our mother is back—which means we can be a family again.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

“A lot of disrupters don’t even have targets, they’re just fooling around,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Are we fooling ourselves to think our taxes matter to our moral responsibility?

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

Those expecting the silly 795% 2025 returns of the year’s best performer, the leveraged $2.1 billion MicroSectors Gold Miners 3X Leveraged, to repeat are almost surely fooling themselves.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

“With handing off, you can’t be fooling around and changing it on the fly. You have to practice it during the week.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

I’m not just consoling myself, or fooling myself into believing I don’t want him because my chances of having him have gone from slim to none.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen