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[fool] / ful /




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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

They’re worth passing consideration, maybe, but you’d have to be a fool to bet your house on their accuracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

As George W. Bush famously said, “Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice … won’t get fooled again.”

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

Today’s most advanced AI models have been able to fool humans and pass the Turing test in various studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“After the last time, I’d be surprised if he was fool enough to face me again!”

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Probably because the investigation’s findings make them out to be not only cheaters, but fools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

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 are being made to look like fools," he added on X.

From BBC ● May 31, 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

Dirty, bruised, and bleeding, we two fools started laughing.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

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

This stuff has been designed intentionally to mimic human beings, and we are very, very easily fooled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

LISBON—The agent manning the passport control line warned me not to be fooled by the mercifully short line that greeted me upon arrival at Portugal’s Lisbon International Airport on the last Friday in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Florida wasn’t going to be fooled by soft-looking skin.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

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

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

“If a high number of those children are not getting the follow-up care, we may just be fooling ourselves and checking a box,” Chung said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026

“We can delude ourselves for a while that this is not a real cost, but we’re only fooling ourselves at the end of the day,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 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

But Kronos was always fooling us, misdirecting our attention.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan




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