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fooled
  • past participle of fool.
  • past tense form of fool.

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Somewhere, every week, some kid hears Won't Get Fooled Again for the first time!

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

"Who's Next" marked the birth of two of the band's concert staples in "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again," songs that crackle with energy and abandon in the box set's embarrassment of remixed riches.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2023

Switch to this past fall, and the magazine posted a video titled “‘Devil in Nerd’s Clothes’: How Sam Bankman-Fried Fooled Everyone.”

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2022

Fooled by recycling symbols, Californians mistakenly are tossing this material into curbside collection programs that don't accept it, the commission said.

From Reuters • Dec. 28, 2021

“You think he is mistaken? Or that I have somehow hoodwinked him? Fooled the Dark Lord, the greatest wizard, the most accomplished Legilimens the world has ever seen?”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling