fools

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • May 31, 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

They have forsworn normalcy, these holy fools in decaying mansions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 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

“We look like fools to our friends,” wrote a New York Times columnist, “rascals to our enemies and incompetents to the rest.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin