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A brief subplot is wholly dedicated to the latter, in fact, as a matter of waking up Matt to the folly of his faith in systems.

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She is accused of engaging in "illegal folly" with Ugandan deputy high commissioner John Leonard Mugerwa in which they conspired to arrange for the young woman to come to the UK.

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L.A.’s sloping suburbs came to embody not just the city’s ambition but its folly.

Newsom and California similarly gave Trump a chance to highlight the follies of Democratic rule and cast himself as a more sensible alternative.

He understands the capacity for human goodness, and even if his adversaries don’t see that virtue within themselves, Paddington’s follies have a way of drawing it out of them.

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