How to Use useful idiot in a Sentence
useful idiot
noun-
Lenin would often talk about useful idiots.
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Diego Lasarte,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
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It could be said that this is a no-harm, no-foul leveraging of a useful idiot.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Where are the useful idiots on campus setting up tents?
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Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Jan. 2026
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A lot of people in tech regard the media as useful idiots.
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Diego Lasarte,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
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With useful idiots like Laura Ali.
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Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Nov. 2025
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That’s the useful part of the AI in the useful idiot consideration.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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The especially worrisome angle is that AI can be a useful idiot on a massive scale.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Next Round Of Vendor Selection Will the AI, as a potential and promising useful idiot, take the bait?
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Once someone finds a manipulation that works, and until the AI computationally figures out what’s taking place, the AI is going to robotically keep serving as a useful idiot, millions of times over.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Rather than having to pinpoint particular protections, maybe the cohesive and comprehensive route is to bake into AI a set of ethical and legal values that will keep it on the straight and narrow path, including being on the watch of becoming a useful idiot.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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While Hamas’ useful idiots here in the United States and elsewhere have parroted anti-Israel propaganda while ignoring the crimes of Hamas, the Palestinian people have suffered the consequences of Hamas’ insistence on perpetuating the war.
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The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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