fool
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“That sounds like you really have the basis for an agreement. … But don’t fool yourself to think that completely addresses the situation.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
The visual alteration was not brilliant – the influencer has to cover the bottom of his chin to hide his beard – but it was clearly enough to fool the retired teacher.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Chicago’s most famous class-cutter, Ferris Bueller, had to fool Principal Ed Rooney to skip school.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
In Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” buffoonish actors play “the pedant, the braggart, the hedge priest, the fool, and the boy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
But the appearance was good enough to fool anyone, and it did.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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