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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

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

A gull on an invisible wire attached through space dragged.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

He also made the case for other intelligent and "under-appreciated" animals, such as foxes and gulls to feature on the new series of banknotes.

From BBC Mar. 14, 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

The lead sentence in the Los Angeles Times story was, “Playing in conditions more suitable for sea gulls and ducks.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

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

The gulls scatter to the dock posts and wood pilings at the water’s edge.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

Notwithstanding Lewis’ churlish dismissal, the truth is that millions of innocent people, many of them small investors gulled by narratives like Bankman-Fried’s, have lost their life savings in cryptocurrency scams.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 2, 2023

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

But the public were not to be gulled; that same evening the stock fell to 640, and the next day to 540.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

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

And from whence dost thou know That I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service?

From The Piccolomini by Samuel Taylor Coleridge




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