sucker

It was Barnum who said not only that a sucker was born every minute, but that you should “never give a sucker an even break.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

The part of me that’s a sucker for goal-setting and self-transformation also wondered: What if, rather than reject the parenting canon, I were to embrace it?

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

I was a sucker for mochi and figured that would cheer me up.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

Mention markets is a category rife with sucker bets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

I slammed that sucker so hard it snapped through the net like a whip.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

By the time I remember it’s happening, all the good sweets are gone from grocery store shelves, so any visiting trick-or-treaters get butterscotch suckers, breath mints or candy corn.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

There’s another man who thinks he can tell that father and daughter “were the kind always looking for a way around the rules, who think waiting is for suckers like him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

But the giant technology companies are now greedily raising as much money as they can from suckers — excuse me, investors — to keep spending on the AI arms race.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Remember how Roger Clemens used to wander back to baseball after letting the rest of those suckers suffer through spring training and the early schedule?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Little kids are suckers for stuff like that.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

Consider this a reminder to everyone: Don’t get suckered like I did into using a third-party website.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

I imagined them recounting stories of the various customers they had suckered during the day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

I still cannot believe so many Americans got suckered so badly.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025

It was actually Bashir who benefitted from the work done by Wood and Atkinson, as both Mikyle Louis and Kirk McKenzie were softened up by the pace, then suckered in by the spin.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024

He cried for himself and for his family—for his parents, who had lived their whole lives in a kind of dreamless and embittered sleep, haunted by phantasms and suckered by the empty promises of pitchmen.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

On the other hand, harvesting rooted shoots from a suckering woody shrub, like twig dogwood, lilac, rugosa rose or raspberries, yields almost instant results and a new plant.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022

Pearce showed me many spicebush specimens that were browsed but are now suckering afresh.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021

Is Karl-Bertil plotting another crime, suckering in a bohemian liberal intent on performing her own broad-mindedness, or is he just a broken soul desperate for a kind word?

From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2020

The mass suckering of so many produced the potential for more suckering, as home buying became the investment rage across the globe.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2014

“Not suckering me here, are you, Jace? Tell you what, how about fleecing me for one pound?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell