idiot
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Myron Shneider said his mother gave him one rule when he flew from Boston to Israel on a Birthright trip in 2012 at age 19: Don’t be an idiot and join the military.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
No one—no reporter, operative, commentator, analyst, or person on the street—wants to look like an idiot by overhyping it again.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
"As the players themselves say, he's an idiot, but he's our idiot," said Saunders.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
"This isn't me and worse, this cheap imitation is a soulless idiot."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Humans are trouble dressed up pretty. Especially that greedy idiot King Barf-a-hew or whatever his silly name is.”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
"That's just stupidity. That's making us all look like idiots," he replies.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“We all feel like idiots for not trying to buy it at $135,” he said, referring to the stock’s initial listing price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
"We've both been conned, useful idiots, which is not a very nice way to put it, but we've been used," says Elma.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Oh my God, I wish we put that much thought into it but no, we’re idiots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Lizzie set down the clam bucket and rake she’d carried from the dory and walked carefully up to him, a little wary because you never can tell what idiots might do.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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