hooked
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After petting a carriage horse in New York's Central Park at the age of five, Alexus Lawson was hooked.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Get hooked on some sports gossip: In the dog days of the NFL season, we need something to look forward to.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
Financial products have been increasingly adding game-like features that create competition or instant gratification to keep users hooked — and the latest example is Tuyo, a prepaid debit card with a “buy-now-pay-maybe” feature.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
It would have been more had Cameron Dicker not hooked a 45-yard attempt early in the second quarter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
He pointed to someone in a glassed-in room taking samples out of a petri dish with a pipette and putting it under a large, heavy-duty microscope hooked up to a computer monitor.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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