idiot
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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 would be an idiot not to walk away from her and let her flourish in her career,” he continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Who among us would not exchange his mental state for that of a whistling idiot?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
I also realize that if I text back too fast, I’ll look like an even bigger desperate idiot.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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 can't believe he's working in schools but to be honest he probably just wanted to get away from us idiots," he laughs.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
I’m like, “Because we were idiots and didn’t think about it until now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
"They are not idiots - they know that social media will film and amplify these videos for them and and they have made sure the response looks national."
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
He was shouting about regulations and how idiots had been killed climbing into cages and how we all had to leave immediately.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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