foolhardy

We all know how difficult it can be to predict long-term winners in the stock market, and at this stage of the AI build-out, it might be foolhardy to do so.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Walk into one such event and you are perpetually being sold on a single, perhaps foolhardy decision that could change at least the next few years of your life.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

His attempts to strike out independently and build his own house fail spectacularly—the first in a storm of lightning and winged ants, the second in a foolhardy scheme to clear the surrounding brush with fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Valuing a company that hasn’t made money at $1.8 trillion seems aggressive at best, foolhardy at worst.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

The scene is so manifestly untamed, so full of an impenetrable beyond, as to present a clearly foolhardy temptation.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Only the foolhardiest would step up to Black Twitter, for example, and demand that it be more welcoming to non–African Americans.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018

They leaned this way and that, the fronts of some thrust outward at an angle to forbid any but the foolhardiest from passing underneath.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

We cooked some eggs on it, to show our unconcern, and while we were cooking them up came an American, who had pitched camp in the foolhardiest spot.

From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch