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If Blanche does end up playing Cassidy for a fool, at least we know the senator won’t spend too much time looking back.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

“You can’t fool the bond. You can’t do it,” he said, referring to the bond market, an important signal of how investors view the health of the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

As far as I was concerned, you made a complete fool of yourself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Andy Serkis’s General Braddock is a blustering fool who refuses to take Washington’s sage advice seriously until it’s too late; as Mary, George’s mother, Mary-Louise Parker is a suffering saint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The challenge, as always, was to play the role of market generalist without also playing the role of fool at the poker table.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Yet of course, like fools, once again we tried.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

Supposed experts have been made to look like fools.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

Such reasoning can become textbook Greater Fool Theory — investors paying foolish prices with the expectation that greater fools than they will pay even higher prices.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

If there were an unofficial tagline that describes it best, it is that all men are knights, and all men are fools.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

“Which will do nothing to stop a thousand fools from digging up the rest of the island once they hear what he was after,” Miss Maggie said.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

Because being fooled once is a shame; being fooled twice — that’s moronic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

She told Bush: "You fooled a lot of people in Hull with your mild manner, when in fact you are a cruel conman. You use people's grief to fund your lifestyle."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Dan Loeb, the hedge-fund veteran famed for boardroom fights and valuing investing, admits Sam Bankman-Fried fooled him.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

But if she, a towering scholar of Yiddish literature, assumes the pose of a little old lady, don’t be fooled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

He had fooled himself, and like a child listening to a bubbe-meise, I had believed every single word of it.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

“The assertion that the U.S. Attorney’s Office was snookered by the Department of the Interior is not fooling anybody,” Eisen said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

So Théodore started an account on X, formerly known as Twitter, called "Insane AI Slop" and started calling out and poking fun at the content he came across that was fooling people.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

Vance is fooling himself if he thinks the foundation for electoral success is the sea of bitter online men who blame feminism for all their personal problems.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

“Hadley, stop fooling and drink some milk,” Mom said.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee