sucker

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 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

"You've got to admit that you really are a sucker," she said.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

A local member of the public spotted the arms with rows of suckers at Forvie National Nature Reserve at Collieston, near Ellon, on Sunday and alerted reserve staff.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

The innocent-faced O’Connor excels at crooks and suckers and fittingly, his Jud describes himself as “young, dumb and full of Christ.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Occasional flurries for purpose of hooking a few more country suckers who haven’t got in to the telegraph office yet.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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

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

It sent its stealthy, suckered tentacles inching along the insides of his skull, hoovering the knolls and dells of his memory, dislodging old sentences, whisking them off the tip of his tongue.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

For a moment, I felt stupid for suckering myself into caring again.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2017

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

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell