goof
Example Sentences
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“AI becomes seductive when it tells you you’re the smartest person because you caught a mistake,” says Schwimmer, who was lauded by ChatGPT for catching the aforementioned travel goof.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025
But sometimes, movies like “The Monkey” can only see fit to goof around with toys.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025
"This is reputation management of the highest order," he wrote, criticising the "softest editing" which painted Sir Jacob wrongly as a "harmless gosh-and-golly goof".
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2024
Watching Englund be such a goof in his early movies is a treat, like when he wrestles a fake alligator in Tobe Hooper’s “Eaten Alive” from 1976.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023
All the Renegades take stretching seriously, even though we like to goof around, talk, and eat.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
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