schmo
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Ed Sheeran wouldn’t let just any old schmo accompany him on “Thinking Out Loud” in front of 70,000 people, especially on an instrument they’ve only played for a few weeks.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025
When scaled down for a regular schmo, Habsburg’s rules are general to the point of banality.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023
“For joe schmo Twitter user, it really doesn’t matter,” Fisch said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
Anderson is a genius, he says, while he’s a schmo.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
“Can you believe that schmo? He says that Aaron ran off, maybe freight-hopped to St. Louis or Cincinnati.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
The not-so-shocking revelation of the original “Squid Game” was that these poor schmoes were being toyed and done away with for the entertainment of the jaded rich.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Judge has more sympathy with ordinary schmoes who just want to do a job they believe in for eight to 10 hours a day, then go home and play video games.
From The Verge ● Oct. 25, 2019
Instead of relying on schmoes to mock draft based on their hunches, a computer could learn how to draft based on data.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2016
But it is essential that they register as schmoes like us.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2015
But in everyday life we relate to them mostly as the same flawed, selfish, bumbling schmoes we’ve always been.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2012
