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I wasn’t a fool, but I did try to build a life for myself by buying a house.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Another risk is the rise of deepfakes – AI-made pictures and videos of people that look real – which can be used to fool the public.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

They’re worth passing consideration, maybe, but you’d have to be a fool to bet your house on their accuracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Today’s most advanced AI models have been able to fool humans and pass the Turing test in various studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“After we advertised, publicized her as the lead. She made a fool of Mr. Haber. And the store.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"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

That may have been outré to a middle and high-schooler trying to be cool, but at some point post-college, the Chili Peppers became synonymous with sweaty fools passing out in strip mall parking lots.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

“Tony doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and he won’t play along with the kind of thing where you hang out with the right industry people,” says Hues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

“This is one of your fools, Your Majesty. He came here to find and capture the Nightingale.”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

A difficult job market appeared to show improvement near the end of summer with a surprisingly big increase in employment, but don’t be fooled: Hiring in the U.S. is still unusually tepid.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Don't be fooled, though, as she has a wealth of experience of managing relationships under intense public pressure from her girl group days.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Some outfielders could be fooled playing balls off the crack of the bat, but Pride got good jumps by watching the swing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Eliza’s creator aimed to fool people into seeing a machine as humanlike then show them how they’d been fooled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

“I trust myself not to be fooled by a deep voice and some shallow compliments,” Tao says scathingly.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

It’s a disguise “Obsession” wears so well that it’s fooling people into thinking this perfectly adequate film marks the arrival of a new horror classic.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

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

Those expecting the silly 795% 2025 returns of the year’s best performer, the leveraged $2.1 billion MicroSectors Gold Miners 3X Leveraged, to repeat are almost surely fooling themselves.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

“It was just Savanna and those guys fooling around,” she said apologetically.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio