fool

Example Sentences

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Even a fool could read the determination on the Bruins’ faces as they roared back from a 39-31 halftime deficit; they’d come so far together, but they so badly wanted to go further.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

Falsified documents were used to hide the trail to China, and non-working "dummy" replica servers were kept in stock to fool auditors, according to the indictment.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

To repudiate a doctrine accepted by the nation’s cultural arbiters gets you uninvited to their parties and called a fool.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Inauthentic honey can also fool chemical analysis, because the sugar levels are so similar.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

All at once the big monkey stopped making a fool out of himself and turned to the little monkeys.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls