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
The follies of the living were more than enough to keep him occupied.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 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
Trueba learned of Nicolas’s follies much too late, which is to say, after everyone else was already talking about them.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
