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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

“And I’ve always loved that the ultimate arbiter of any performance has been the audience and not some schmuck producer or executive producer.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

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

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2023

Now I was Percy Jackson, the poor schmuck with the ugly monster for a brother.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

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

But don’t feel sorry for the schmucks Robinson plays, even when they start to cry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

The not-exactly-hidden subtext being, "that won't happen again, schmucks".

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2019

“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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