idiot
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"You made me feel like an idiot thinking I could trust you," his daughter said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
"This isn't me and worse, this cheap imitation is a soulless idiot."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
“I’ve changed a lot as a filmmaker, but I’m still the same idiot I’ve always been,” says Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
"I was off my rocker when she let me out. I was babbling like an idiot."
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
We were talking about him on the Monday Night Club before Leeds walloped Newcastle and only idiots question whether he is the right man to move the club forward now.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hurd had been tennis buddies with Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who publicly criticized HP’s decision as “the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
I’m like, “Because we were idiots and didn’t think about it until now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
"We are big idiots really, but there isn't enough opportunity for us to be around each other and show that in a safe space where we can really let our hair down," he added.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
I didn’t mind, for I like ‘to see folks eat with a relish’, as Hannah says, and the poor man must have needed a deal of food after teaching idiots all day.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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