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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

"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

I feel like a schmuck for financing her and her kids.

From Slate Jan. 6, 2023

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

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

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

“If you are Richie Weeks, you think to yourself, ‘Who are these schmucks?

From New York Times Sep. 18, 2022

In their places stood Jerry Seinfeld, Seth Rogen, and Adam Sandler, who were deep trenches of playing schmucks and schlubs.

From Salon Oct. 29, 2021

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

From Washington Post Jul. 9, 2018

Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play a couple of schmucks who manage to make big bucks in the international arms trade in the fact-based 2016 dark comedy "War Dogs."

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2017




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