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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

It’s the reminder some poor schmuck had Abilene Christian, and so we owe it to that man to properly document what happened and try our best to laugh in a way that’s comforting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024

"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

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

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

Endorsing schmucks you've never met in your life and couldn't care less about and then spreading some cash around.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2021

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

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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