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gull

[guhl] / gʌl /
VERB
cheat
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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

Birds including the curlew, nightjar, dipper, lesser black-backed gull and red grouse are also named.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 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

Then at about two in the afternoon we finally saw a bird, a gull.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

I used to vacation in a cabin on Narragansett Bay where I was typically awakened to a symphony of gulls and other birds; I’d often wondered if other jazz musicians saw possibilities in these sounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Their harmonies intertwine like two gulls in flight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

"There's something in it about migrancy, because we're not sure about these gulls... why are they here - things travelling, wanted, unwanted. I think there's a real story in there for now."

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

But he felt the sea breeze rolling beside him, arid he heard the rising of the gulls, and he felt the fire in his hands again.

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

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

Ultimately, the company settled a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit by paying $200 million to 350,000 consumers who had been gulled by “Herbalife’s deceptive earnings claims” into signing on as Herbalife marketers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 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

France, almost without diplomatists since Talleyrand, has never possessed one more easily gulled than this little man.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

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

That is, among those gulling the public, cynicism is a stronger force; among those being gulled, gullibility is, but the two are not so separate as they might seem.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

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

But do not say: "Passajon is gulling us."

From The Nabob, Volume 1 by George Burnham Ives




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