fool
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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
“Distortion can fool you into thinking sound is louder,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
A chatbot can fool an adult anytime but a toddler could spot a fake at 50 paces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
She nodded and said, “I’m old and blind, but I still hear things. A fool never prospers in peace. Do you know what their magic is?”
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
She’s also widely known for her many devoted friendships, though she doesn’t suffer fools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
"We are being made to look like fools," he added on X.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
That may have been outré to a middle and high-schooler trying to be cool, but at some point post-college, the Chili Peppers became synonymous with sweaty fools passing out in strip mall parking lots.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 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
“He wasn’t boasting, Tim. He’s going over to Wethersfield. The fools are planning to march up to Massachusetts to meddle in something that isn’t their affair.”
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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
Don’t be fooled by its breezy ’60s-analog vintage pop sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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
She would be livid that I’d fooled her.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
It’s a disguise “Obsession” wears so well that it’s fooling people into thinking this perfectly adequate film marks the arrival of a new horror classic.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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
“It was just Savanna and those guys fooling around,” she said apologetically.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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