goof

Example Sentences

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“AI becomes seductive when it tells you you’re the smartest person because you caught a mistake,” says Schwimmer, who was lauded by ChatGPT for catching the aforementioned travel goof.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

"This is reputation management of the highest order," he wrote, criticising the "softest editing" which painted Sir Jacob wrongly as a "harmless gosh-and-golly goof".

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2024

But, you know, we're out to have fun and we're out to goof around.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2024

Later he anchored a bit that found the show’s correspondents Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta and Dulce Sloan reporting from the same diner, a goof on the campaign coverage trope.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2024

He's one of these big-kid grown-ups, a goof troop, all jokes, all the time.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds