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schmuck

[shmuhk] / ʃmʌk /


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SpaceX is so big that lots of funds would have bought SpaceX at almost any price in order not to trail the benchmark and look dumb—so-called schmuck insurance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

“If you don’t want to make a difference, why are you running? Let some other schmuck do it.”

From Slate Jul. 10, 2025

"They called me the schmuck from Hanover," he laughs.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2023

"He turned out to be the biggest schmuck I've ever met," she said.

From Salon Apr. 14, 2023

“You’ve been making a schmuck out of yourself for years, Nate,” Libby says.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Up to this point, Judge’s filmography was exceedingly kind, willing to dig deeper and find humanity in an entire universe of schmucks and mediocrities.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

And on the sublime Mariners Apartment Complex, she even addresses the people - critics, boyfriends, record-industry bigwigs - who "mistook my kindness for weakness", the not-exactly-hidden subtext being: "That won't happen again, schmucks."

From BBC Jul. 10, 2023

I didn’t know Matt and I would end up the last schmucks left in our hometown, seemingly the only people shaking our heads at the advent of a $6 cup of joe.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2021

“And we’re the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing.”

From Washington Post Jul. 9, 2018

They could have been any two billionaire schmucks taking an evening stroll through Manhattan.

From New York Times Feb. 1, 2018




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