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“He can fool you with his polish upwards,” the memo notes, adding that Flores has “little people skills, lacks self-awareness and can sometimes exhibit erratic behavior.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I wasn’t a fool, but I did try to build a life for myself by buying a house.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Another risk is the rise of deepfakes – AI-made pictures and videos of people that look real – which can be used to fool the public.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

And I’m no fool; having seen all of Anderson’s “Resident Evil” films, I know they are not created equal.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

And its CEO was being told he was either a fool or a crook, by Vincent Daniel, from Queens.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

All of the king’s men were experienced soldiers; none were fools or the moronic redcoats so often caricatured in American mythology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

"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

That may have been outré to a middle and high-schooler trying to be cool, but at some point post-college, the Chili Peppers became synonymous with sweaty fools passing out in strip mall parking lots.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

Ain't even no water nowhere near here, but these fools got BOATS!

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

And we will be fooled into believing that’s the best, or worst, thing comedy has to offer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

A difficult job market appeared to show improvement near the end of summer with a surprisingly big increase in employment, but don’t be fooled: Hiring in the U.S. is still unusually tepid.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Eliza’s creator aimed to fool people into seeing a machine as humanlike then show them how they’d been fooled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Don't be fooled by the number nine he wore on his back for Switzerland at the World Cup - he generally plays a lot deeper than that.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

“Don’t think we don’t notice how you sabotage all your relationships so you can run back to Jupiter, Coop. You might have everybody else fooled with that sad-dumped-guy shit, but we know you.”

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

“A lot of disrupters don’t even have targets, they’re just fooling around,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Then there's this, he said: AI models are getting better and better at detecting when they are being tested and might behave differently when they are actually deployed, fooling their masters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Are we fooling ourselves to think our taxes matter to our moral responsibility?

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

“With handing off, you can’t be fooling around and changing it on the fly. You have to practice it during the week.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

“No, not really. I’m fooling you. A blue ribbon is lots better than a white one. Travis and Bunny won the best prize there is.”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly