fool's paradise

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fool's paradise
Noun
  • Brian is there waiting for her and holy hell are these two into each other.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Yes, there are teams that constantly underwhelm, but the teams that remain talented and in purgatory hell might be worse off.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Still, dystopia as envisioned by the movie’s directors, the Wachowskis (and their collaborators, on that film, particularly in production and costume design), looks pretty rad, in cinematic terms.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
  • According to Thom Yorke, the inspiration for the new live package was Hamlet Hail to the Thief, a London theater production blending the Shakespeare play with the Radiohead album, fusing four centuries of murderous political dystopia.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Fool's paradise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fool%27s%20paradise. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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