bêtise

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Noun
  • The primary issues facing this company highlighted by Jana are capital misallocation, a series of operational blunders and corporate governance failings.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The blunder not only allowed a run to score, but extended an inning that would eventually see the Dodgers erase a 5-0 deficit.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This is reminiscent of the famous remark that this is a fine line between genius and insanity.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Then again, believing that to be true might just be what insanity looks like from the inside.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • On the floor above a woman sweeps the floor, an act of absurdity that doubles as bravery, the whole scene a desperate attempt at normalcy in a world that has become anything but.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Accentuating the absurdity of the gold rush, one of the screenwriters of Mezrich’s project, Lauren Schuker Blum, was competing with her husband, the producer Jason Blum, who was racing to get HBO’s project developed.
    Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Instead, Russia has paid a staggering price for Putin’s imperial folly, with hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties since February 2022 and more than $200 billion squandered.
    Lloyd J. Austin III, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
  • This is exactly why Democrats on Sept. 30 filed a lawsuit to block this potential folly.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But in Judge’s intentionally crass lament (which somehow becomes more prescient and troublesome by the day), our rampant national boorishness and stupidity was sort of the point.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The problem lies in the stupidity of the is original spec.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Bêtise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/b%C3%AAtise. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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