folly

But what’s conventional wisdom today could look like folly six weeks from now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Nordqvist's persistent faith in Woad and Hull, playing her two highest ranked players together in the four opening sessions seemed a folly.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Mozeliak probably won’t be around to see the folly of this trade as he will leave this winter and his successor will have to pick up the pieces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Market corrections, recessions, depressions, pandemics and human folly, along with investing in individual stocks despite the standard advice to diversify your holdings, can all take a toll on retirement savings.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

‘It is by our own folly that the Enemy will defeat us,’ cried Boromir.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

Without these changes, Californians are probably headed for more fiscal follies in the years ahead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

It’s we who must decide if there will even be generations, a century from now, to look back on our follies, no less thank us for subversively saving our planet for them.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 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