as in weakness
a defect in character
could tolerate my uncle's foibles because we loved him dearly
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Recent Examples of foible
Still, some of these foibles are easier to forgive when seen in service of the greater good.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Jan. 2026
There were triumphs and trials, feats and foibles, delights and disasters.
—Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
Fudging on size isn't just a human foible.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2025
Yet where experimentation generally teaches new lessons, this felt more like reinforcement of where England are good and where England still have problems, a performance punctuated by familiar defensive frustrations and foibles.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Jan. 2026
There were triumphs and trials, feats and foibles, delights and disasters.
—Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
Fudging on size isn't just a human foible.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2025
Yet where experimentation generally teaches new lessons, this felt more like reinforcement of where England are good and where England still have problems, a performance punctuated by familiar defensive frustrations and foibles.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foible
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If the Nasdaq 100 sees further weakness ahead of megacap technology companies’ earnings, the QQQ could rapidly slide to about 580, according to Jay Woods, chief market strategist at Freedom Capital Markets.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2026
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In theory, that weakness could be an opening for a president to muscle Congress into codifying parts of his agenda.—
Yuval Levin,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
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Executive Director of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance Paul Craney wasn’t having it, saying high utility bills in Massachusetts are the fault of Healey’s policies and the state’s NetZero by 2050 climate mandate, which favors solar, wind and battery power over natural gas.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
23 Jan. 2026
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Scientists think this white oil originated deep within the earth, traveled along the San Gabriel fault zone and was filtered through several layers of sediment.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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Painfully aware of his shortcomings, Wallace would have been horrified by his own subsequent beatification.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Hollyland says the Lyra directly addresses these shortcomings with three major technological breakthroughs that set a new benchmark for high-performance webcams at a sensible price point.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The nation was to be purged of continual sin not indeed all of its own doing—due partly to its inheritance; and yet a sin, a negation that gave the world the right to sneer at the pretensions of this republic.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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Whatever your preconceived notions about Feldman are, Hume’s film will expand and challenge them; the movie’s greatness lies in its ability to capture all of Feldman’s contradictions and self-destructiveness, empathizing with him without soft-pedaling his sins.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Foible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foible. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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