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

"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

But, you know, we're out to have fun and we're out to goof around.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2024

Which is how something like “Hit Man,” which seems at first glance like a goof, also can consider some of the deepest mysteries of the human condition.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Mentioning the adulation that Bobby was receiving, Collins added, “They make so much out of a goof like him.”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady