fool's paradise

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fool's paradise
Noun
  • The Bible refers to the eagle, which refers to America, the fourth seal broken, and hell coming to Earth.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Lee’s just about to explain Betty Jo’s absence when those cops that hate him — last seen at Dale’s memorial — scoop him up and deliver him to hell.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Marisol is forced to deal with the romantic obsession of a friend’s mentally ill brother, that friend’s disappearance, and being plunged into a landscape that’s less a dystopia than an apocalypse in process.
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There’s an atemporal quality to the film’s stylized alternate reality, which blends an old-world charm with signs of a technocratic dystopia, all contained to a few blocks in an imaginary town.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Fool's paradise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fool%27s%20paradise. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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