errand
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“It makes it a fool’s errand to be able to predict because it’s less about logic and more about negotiation tactics.”
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
My husband and I burst out laughing – not at that scene, or the clerk’s impromptu theatrics, but at this injection of delight into an otherwise mundane errand.
From Salon • May 2, 2026
Predicting when a bubble is finally about to burst could be a fool’s errand.
From Barron's • Dec. 30, 2025
Teasing out the plot’s tangled threads and expecting each to adhere to logic is a fool’s errand, yet what viewer will insist this type of picture have an airtight story?
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
He was running an errand in downtown Durham one day not long after the trial when he spotted a city councilman walking briskly toward him on the sidewalk.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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