Example Sentences

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You’re doing all the right stuff by yourself, and you’re among professionals, medical professionals, not Yahoos, and you can still have someone else make a mistake and your life is gone.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

The Yahoos amplify all of humanity's worst traits, and through them Swift challenges the anthropocentric view of the world in a way that seems very modern.

From Nature • Sep. 26, 2017

She maintained sorority discipline when the Yahoos from CNN were around.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016

Those benefits are really only a trademark of the big guys—the Facebooks, Apples, Googles and Yahoos of Silicon Valley.

From Time • Aug. 5, 2015

The Tribunal of Justice of this * shall consist of a Grand Council of Yahoos, and a Grand Council of Centaurs.

From Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by Lester, J. C.