idiot
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No one—no reporter, operative, commentator, analyst, or person on the street—wants to look like an idiot by overhyping it again.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
"This isn't me and worse, this cheap imitation is a soulless idiot."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
What idiot recently wrote that these Rams were going to go undefeated?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“One idiot on one side does one thing, the other side does another,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Leo realized he was staring like an idiot.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
But Hull will go into this thinking if they can go back-to-back then what a start that is because they've been written off by idiots like myself.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"I can't believe he's working in schools but to be honest he probably just wanted to get away from us idiots," he laughs.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
This space has been littered with criticism of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James and other local legends who occasionally acted like idiots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
When useful idiots play along, the hypocrisy is double: Perpetrators pretend to be humane, and apologists pretend to believe them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
By making people think about jam, Wilson and Schooler turned them into jam idiots.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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