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“Who’s more foolish,” asked Obi-Wan Kenobi, “the fool, or the fool who follows him?”

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

He advised one of the council members to work on her Jedi mind tricks to fool them, then raised his hand to the audience, saying: “Do it like this.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

He aimed to fool people into seeing a machine as humanlike—now sometimes called the Eliza effect—and then show them how they’d been fooled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

"These small windows that the world sees, the little openings here and there including secret schools for girls, are just meant to fool everybody," she laments with visible sadness.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Don’t fool anyone, boy. You wouldn’t hurt anything or anyone,” the Shadow Queen said.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

"We'd be fools to think that we'd just go and play like we did in the 'Champ' every week when we dominated a lot of games."

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

All of the king’s men were experienced soldiers; none were fools or the moronic redcoats so often caricatured in American mythology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

She’s also widely known for her many devoted friendships, though she doesn’t suffer fools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Such reasoning can become textbook Greater Fool Theory — investors paying foolish prices with the expectation that greater fools than they will pay even higher prices.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

It was hard to avoid going past, since it was off the only road going north of the village, but it was set back too far from the road for the fools to see.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

This stuff has been designed intentionally to mimic human beings, and we are very, very easily fooled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Smartphones have fooled us into thinking that we curate what our screens show us.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

LISBON—The agent manning the passport control line warned me not to be fooled by the mercifully short line that greeted me upon arrival at Portugal’s Lisbon International Airport on the last Friday in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

She told Bush: "You fooled a lot of people in Hull with your mild manner, when in fact you are a cruel conman. You use people's grief to fund your lifestyle."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Ugwu was certain that Professor Achara had fooled Master into renting the house; there was something wily in the man’s bulging eyes.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Are we fooling ourselves to think our taxes matter to our moral responsibility?

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

“We can delude ourselves for a while that this is not a real cost, but we’re only fooling ourselves at the end of the day,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

So Théodore started an account on X, formerly known as Twitter, called "Insane AI Slop" and started calling out and poking fun at the content he came across that was fooling people.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

“With handing off, you can’t be fooling around and changing it on the fly. You have to practice it during the week.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

First I think my eyes are fooling, but there it is, big as life, looking like it missed me.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick