sucker
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On Amazon, you can get blue-blockers for $20—if you want to be a sucker whose eyes are drowning in other short-wavelength light!
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
I am a sucker for it, for fashion like that of clothing designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Mention markets is a category rife with sucker bets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
And this sucker has a collar, no less!
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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
People made fun of the way the Knicks courted stars like LeBron James, as if those suckers actually had a chance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Even actors, the biggest suckers for rewarding bold performances involving transformation, wouldn’t nominate him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
A giant squid was washed up dead at nearby Newburgh in 1998, but the suckers on the Forvie arms did not have teeth like a squid's.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
“Well, I get the last laugh. I haven’t washed those suckers in at least two weeks.”
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
Consider this a reminder to everyone: Don’t get suckered like I did into using a third-party website.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Team boss Frederic Vasseur said he thought Hamilton had been suckered into trying to stay with the Mercedes early in the race and paid the price.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
After 10 seconds, “Veridis Quo” fades, and the episode cuts from black to Henry and Yasmin privately assessing their next moves, analyzing how they were suckered by Whitney’s predatory charms.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026
I imagined them recounting stories of the various customers they had suckered during the day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
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
Give this plant some room, and avoid disturbing the roots to reduce suckering.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
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
Bono and I crawled along a row and put ourselves in the way of one man who stooped there, suckering plants.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
