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gull

[guhl] / gʌl /
VERB
cheat
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Antonyms
STRONG
be honest


NOUN
person easily deceived
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The lab report concluded that flying debris from the tail section mangled a great black-backed gull whose wing was found on a rooftop with other debris.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

The incident unfolded when the low-flying gull got caught in the path of a clearance kick by Istanbul Yurdum Spor's goalkeeper during an amateur playoff match against Mevlanakapi Guzelhisar, a club official told AFP Tuesday.

From Barron's Feb. 24, 2026

Earlier in 2024, scientists detected H5N1 in a kelp gull and two skuas that were found dead in January and February.

From Science Daily Feb. 12, 2026

McQuilkin said the struggling gull population reflects broader ecological problems.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2025

But his plan to make use of the gull excited everyone and was seen as something that not even Blackberry could have hit upon.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Their harmonies intertwine like two gulls in flight.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

"Do people like gulls, there's a bit of doubt... should gulls be in Worcester? Should they be away from the coast? They are - and they are because of us," Carpenter said.

From BBC Feb. 17, 2026

In a recent expedition to Antarctica, new cases were discovered in Antarctic cormorants, kelp gulls, Adelie and gentoo penguins, and Antarctic fur seals, Neira told AFP.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 2026

Instead, the main agents of colonization appear to be gulls, geese, and shorebirds, which carried seeds in their digestive systems or droppings.

From Science Daily Nov. 4, 2025

Laughter from the group, louder than the gulls.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

And they are easily gulled by simple tricks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Laypersons might be gulled into extrapolating from clothes-folding to genuinely complicated tasks, but that would be a mistake.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 6, 2025

It is inconceivable that none of them would have had contact with friends and relatives in the Philippines who might have been gulled by the American disinformation.

From Salon Aug. 3, 2024

An assassin prevented Americans from proving, by spurning Long’s presidential pretenses, that they were less easily gulled than Long assumed.

From Washington Post Nov. 15, 2022

Gad! don’t you remember how she spotted that waiter from the Ritz who gulled the lot of us at the Jetée last winter?

From The Silent Barrier by Louis Tracy

The city alleged that Siemens had pulled a bait-and-switch, gulling the city into signing a contract lacking that hard-and-fast guarantee.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2022

Documenting a lifetime spent gulling audiences and pursuing con men, the directors Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom have produced a jaunty, jovial portrait with a surprising sting in its tail.

From New York Times Mar. 5, 2015

It also has the potential to massively chill free speech by gulling ISPs and websites into either pulling down totally legal material when faced with any sort of complaint, but also proactively policing free expression.

From Time Sep. 4, 2014

The diction was very poor, the gulling scenes rather disappointing for exactly the reasons Michael Billington outlines, and the whole thing could do with some serious cutting.

From The Guardian Aug. 3, 2012

To this accordingly Chatterton resorted, and found no difficulty in gulling the most learned of his credulous dupes with his parchments.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various




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