bêtise

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Noun
  • But the team with the biggest quarterback blunder from 2018 was the Arizona Cardinals, who made the decision to trade up to the No. 10 pick to take Josh Rosen.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • This week’s White House Report Card could have been a bad one, considering court rulings against President Donald Trump, staffing blunders, and a lack of movement on his tariff war that is starting to scare his supporters.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Dominguez has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing two people and grievously wounding a third over the space of five days in April and May 2023.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • However, on April 18, a judge in Fulton County Superior Court dropped the charges against Calabrese-Lewis, ordering that she should be declared not guilty by reason of insanity, citing her mental illness, according to the filing obtained by PEOPLE.
    Nicole Acosta, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Within the film’s glittering absurdity, Langlois shows us how easily the monster that was fame and fandom could turn on women like Mimi and Billie.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Based in Brooklyn, the studio will focus on stories that go inside the fringe to capture the absurdity of modern American life.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The restorative nature of Brighton & Hove Albion’s late comeback win against West Ham highlighted the influence of Lewis Dunk and the folly of writing off the club’s long-serving captain.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The ascendance of performative politics represents perhaps the starkest example of the folly described in Kerr's framework.
    Nate Bennett, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The stupidity of enacting a massive tax increase on the entire global economy at this point doesn’t make much sense.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking.
    David Brooks, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Bêtise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/b%C3%AAtise. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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