goof
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I think pretty early on, we were like, “Let’s goof on Alex for a little while in this conspiracy world.”
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
The story unspools as an extended goof on the familiar sequences and characters from the movie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
That last one, certainly; Jackie is a sweet, innocent goof and Guido is very funny playing him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 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
The boys all treated the assignment like it was a big goof and most of the girls weren’t too excited about it, either.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
He goofs off with the ball kids, who are closer in age to him than any of the tennis pooh-bahs in charge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2025
Victory goes to the fastest canine, with penalties for any goofs in clearing the obstacles.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
It also has a few driving location goofs that make Californians giggle.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Sometimes, if people don’t understand what you’re doing, it is not because they are goofs but because you haven’t done your job as a satirist correctly.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
“I heard you. Maybe I’m too old to get mad, or maybe what you consider goofs aren’t what / consider goofs—it’s just stuff that happens.”
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
Colbert often goofed on his public image with mock outrage over perceived offenses, a carry-over from his long-running shtick on “The Colbert Report.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
In down times, they played card games and goofed around, singing patriotic songs, recording videos and taking selfies.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
Washington, Seattle, is that the same thing?” goofed the geographically confused star.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
"Ecowas goofed, the Nigerian president also goofed," said Prof Khalifa Dikwa, an academic at the University of Maiduguri and a member of an influential group of elders in northern Nigeria.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
Right off, I wanted to say I was sorry for the way the election thing had been all goofed up, but that there was always next time.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
Kalshi, which dragged the hermetic Pete Sampras out for a weird ad, actually had its name on another video goofing on attendees who didn’t know basic stuff about tennis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Geisel lasted less than a year in Oxford, but Jones says "once he's hooked up with Helen" he spent his time "travelling, goofing off and kind of really doing anything but his studies".
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
Eileen Shiffrin, Mikaela’s mother and original skiing Obi-Wan, says she knows it’s going to be a good day when her daughter is goofing off and chatty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
But unlike these two strong-willed, aggressive characters, A’zion in person exudes the warm, infectious energy of your most fun pal, the one you want to spend all day goofing off with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Since it rained for the rest of the day, we spent most of the afternoon goofing off in the rec room.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
