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hikers who were foolhardy enough to remain on the summit during a thunderstorm
it's foolhardy to go hiking during late fall without warm clothes
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Overshadowing the endorsement was a foolhardy rhetorical flourish that insulted key voting blocs courted by the Republican nominee in his campaign against the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Grover Cleveland.
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Robert B. Mitchell / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
An empathy gap is obvious in online commenters who suggest, for example, that flood victims earned their fate through the foolhardy choice to live near water, that earthquake victims shouldn’t have lived near fault lines, and so on.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
And if even one state’s bioweapons program experimented with extinction-level pathogens—perhaps on a foolhardy quest to develop the ultimate deterrent—the next laboratory accident could precipitate a global pandemic much worse than that of COVID-19.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
The brave—or foolhardy—among us can even love to love it.
—Simon Garfield, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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Robert B. Mitchell / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
An empathy gap is obvious in online commenters who suggest, for example, that flood victims earned their fate through the foolhardy choice to live near water, that earthquake victims shouldn’t have lived near fault lines, and so on.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
And if even one state’s bioweapons program experimented with extinction-level pathogens—perhaps on a foolhardy quest to develop the ultimate deterrent—the next laboratory accident could precipitate a global pandemic much worse than that of COVID-19.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
The brave—or foolhardy—among us can even love to love it.
—Simon Garfield, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Foolhardy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foolhardy. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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