gullible
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Maybe Roher believes this is what our increasingly gullible, truth-challenged citizenry needs from an explanatory doc: a flashy, kindhearted reminder that we’re the change we need to be.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Or is it more like Freddy Krueger, coming back to haunt the gullible?
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
The fundamental problem is that hopeful investors are too often gullible investors.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026
Ms Slinn added: "You just feel a bit stupid, don't you? You think 'how gullible can you be to give £5,000 to people you don't even know who they are?'."
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025
In a tone that all but invited the reader to join him in a tolerant chuckle, Hapgood observed that a few gullible souls had noticed "an apparent correspondence in shape between certain continents."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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