folly
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Among them are Eurovision regular attendees Kevin Stephenson, Leigh Lester and Daniel Folly, from West Sussex, who were onboard a specially commissioned EasyJet flight from Gatwick to Basel.
From BBC • May 16, 2025
The license was originally issued under heavy pressure from Rousseff’s government, said Folly.
From Washington Times • May 7, 2023
The whole place was strangely scentless: a spread of neo-brutalism and Faraday Cage Folly architecture, sterile sculptures studded with hostile textures, quasi-public outbuildings like amphitheaters and gazebos that were functionally useless and inaccessible.
From Slate • Aug. 27, 2022
Tim Weiner’s most recent book is “The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945-2020.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022
Folly, folly, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous, suicidal folly!
From "1984" by George Orwell
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