chump
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Meanwhile, the buttering up risks making Mr. Trump look like a chump if the Chinese don’t give him something in return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Bloomberg added to its calculation Musk’s stakes in his private companies Neuralink and Boring Co., about $7 billion between them, chump change in Musk’s world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
That’s not chump change — and it could require pulling back on discretionary spending such as dining out or travel, or redirecting any future raises, bonuses or tax refunds toward your retirement fund.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
But everyone surely found out immediately after the fact, making her look like a total chump for having just given a sweeping address as the supposed head of homeland security.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026
And now if I don’t talk about Alcatraz, I’ll look like a chump.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
Older Americans who’ve spent decades building nest eggs in those accounts would feel like chumps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Jack Milne, heroic at the heart of an Aberdeen defence that performed a miraculous metamorphosis from mistake-ridden chumps to hugely resilient champs.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
Around the same time, I convinced my friend Sam that we couldn’t be just another pair of chumps at our parents’ offices on Career Day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
In a 24-17 homecoming loss to UCLA, the Huskies looked like champions, but played like chumps.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
And there were those fat puffins, looking like chumps, bumbling around like they had no idea how to get on in the world, looking dumb and stupid, and so beautiful that I wanted to...nothing.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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