sucker

“So he wrote ‘Pinball Wizard,’ which he knew I’d be a sucker for.”

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 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

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

Last night, when Nan tied the twine on the two-hundredth sucker, she’d smiled at me.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

But some of the people played for suckers, like Melissa Santos, a dancer who answered an ad for a music video not knowing who was behind it, are still annoyed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

"Its stubby little arms with only one row of suckers set it apart from most octopus we are familiar with," Voight said.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

Even actors, the biggest suckers for rewarding bold performances involving transformation, wouldn’t nominate him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026

The suckers, which were fastened to me and pained greatly, lessened their hold.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

First, don’t assume you’re too sophisticated to be suckered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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

They don’t have to outrun the bear, they just have to be faster than whatever normie investor gets suckered into buying SpaceX when it enters the index without being properly seasoned.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

I couldn’t believe, didn’t want to believe, it was really going to happen, because I didn’t want to get suckered into waiting for the car to come.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

They’ve been suckering us for years and continue to do so.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2017

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