as in fools
a silly flighty person
don't be such a scatterbrain—it's only a wedding, not the invasion of Normandy
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Noun
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The fools of twenty-first-century Western imperialism possessed little of the historical literacy, let alone the moral sophistication, of Arendt, Weil, and Camus.—
Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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The mind wants desperately to connect with a person—and fools itself into seeing one in a machine.—
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In Chicago, the large lakeshore population of Canadian geese has become a major food source for Cook County coyotes, not so much the adult geese themselves as the contents of their nests, nearly half of which get raided in most years.—
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And Canada geese, which can be found in Kansas City year-round, are also getting sick.—
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Brood parasites such as cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, tricking the hosts into caring for their offspring at the expense of their own.—
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“Scatterbrains.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scatterbrains. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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