follies
Example Sentences
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People forget about past follies, either by choice and/or because they’re distracted by the next shiny thing.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026
Amid follies aplenty, gold has doubled in the past two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
He understands the capacity for human goodness, and even if his adversaries don’t see that virtue within themselves, Paddington’s follies have a way of drawing it out of them.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025
Agency veterans of the 9/11 era had recognized its follies and revamped the training in an effort to prevent similar intelligence failures in the future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
This emotion, this pain, these follies also had to be experienced.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
