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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

To paraphrase the maxim falsely attributed to Lincoln, you can fool a whole bunch of the people for a hell of a long time, but you can’t fool all of them forever.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 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

“You can’t fool the customer,” said Lance Trenary, chief executive of the roughly 350-unit restaurant chain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Gospodin, you don’t fall for fool magic. It just happens.”

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Nothing escapes Maupassant’s attention: the attitudes intended to shield weak character that expose it instead; the vanity that fools no one; the morality unwittingly displayed by styles of dress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"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

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

One of these young fools who tore round the country.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

And we will be fooled into believing that’s the best, or worst, thing comedy has to offer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

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

Mom wasn’t fooled, but she got to laughing too hard to swat me at full power.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

“The assertion that the U.S. Attorney’s Office was snookered by the Department of the Interior is not fooling anybody,” Eisen said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

The transition was rough for Ansari, who wasn’t fluent in English and often got in trouble for fooling around in school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 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

He hides behind the excuse that he’s only fooling around, that everyone else needs to learn how to take a joke.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson