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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 beat-up gull swooped in and pecked at a cigarette filter.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

He describes how scientists in the 1970s found around 15% of Western gulls formed same-sex pairings - a discovery that sparked a moral panic and even threats to defund their research.

From BBC Jun. 20, 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

Skuas are large brown seabirds related to gulls that live mainly in polar and subpolar regions.

From Science Daily Feb. 12, 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

“I count 229 birds,” I say, pointing at the gulls.

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

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

The sly rogue Sancho had much difficulty to forbear laughing to think how finely his master was gulled.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

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

These involve methods which are not always straight-forward; yet, since he believes in the success of what he advocates, he is not absolutely unprincipled, though he does not mind to some extent gulling the gullible.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick




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