folly
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Well, sure—although some of us knew folly when we saw it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Prolonging this parasitic relationship by trying to squeeze the last few drops of expensive oil out of the North Sea is sheer folly," Hopkinson said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Market corrections, recessions, depressions, pandemics and human folly, along with investing in individual stocks despite the standard advice to diversify your holdings, can all take a toll on retirement savings.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Gold is the color of false idolatry, the material of gratuitous wealth, a hallmark of authoritarian style, and a metaphor for the folly of prioritizing personal enrichment and glory over everything else.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
So various were the peoples of the Americas that continent-wide generalizations are risky to the point of folly.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
In an essay for this year's Proms programme, he admitted that some of the genre's "excesses and follies can seem silly" to a modern eye, while insisting the genre shouldn't be written off.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
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
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
The Men of Númenor were settled far and wide on the shores and seaward regions of the Great Lands, but for the most part they fell into evils and follies.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing folly
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