foolhardy

Buying while an outbreak is still in the headlines sounds about as foolhardy as picking up some discounted lettuce at the supermarket, yet there are profitable precedents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Walk into one such event and you are perpetually being sold on a single, perhaps foolhardy decision that could change at least the next few years of your life.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

Valuing a company that hasn’t made money at $1.8 trillion seems aggressive at best, foolhardy at worst.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

So they’ve been trying to talk their leaders out of this foolhardy mission.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

But whether the future of nuclear technology lay in war or peace, dispersing an effective team of experienced researchers and leaving them without financial support would be a foolhardy course for the government.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Only the foolhardiest would step up to Black Twitter, for example, and demand that it be more welcoming to non–African Americans.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018

They leaned this way and that, the fronts of some thrust outward at an angle to forbid any but the foolhardiest from passing underneath.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

We cooked some eggs on it, to show our unconcern, and while we were cooking them up came an American, who had pitched camp in the foolhardiest spot.

From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch