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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“It didn’t matter to him. It broke my heart, and I told myself ‘you’re not going to get away with this, you’re not going to make a fool of your own people.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

But he cautioned that no system was fool proof, and that some women's support groups have in the past voiced concern that such systems might give a false sense of security.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Folks said Pa was a fool for not going north. ‘Northerners won the Civil War,’ Sukie, his best friend, the blacksmith, said.

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

The boys are not masterminds; the victims are not fools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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

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

“Nessie, Sallie, make sure those fools have the horse hooked up right and then take those straps.”

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

Eliza’s creator aimed to fool people into seeing a machine as humanlike then show them how they’d been fooled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

A Fury lookalike briefly fooled reporters when he stepped out of a taxi, while Fury's manager Spencer Brown insisted the 'Gypsy King' would be "there in spirit".

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

They saw nothing wrong with him and they had been fooled so many times that they went on with their work.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

He was a receiver and a youth football coach saw him fooling around kicking at a flag football game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

He often moves his body in a way that looks like he is going to pass to one team-mate, before passing it to the spare man after fooling the defenders.

From BBC ● May 8, 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

In a stem voice, Papa said, “Billy, I don’t want you fooling around with the Pritchards any more. You have plenty of country around here so you don’t have to go there to hunt.”

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls