follies

Example Sentences

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People forget about past follies, either by choice and/or because they’re distracted by the next shiny thing.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026

To my eyes, however, the human follies she evokes are all too realistic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

More aggressive fine print restrains other follies like the bond portfolio mismatches that undid California-based Silicon Valley Bank two years ago, says Davide Oneglia, director of European and global macro at TS Lombard.

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

Agency veterans of the 9/11 era had recognized its follies and revamped the training in an effort to prevent similar intelligence failures in the future.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023

But these he did not learn from them, these child-like pleasures and follies; he only learned the unpleasant things from them which he despised.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse