sucker
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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
Mention markets is a category rife with sucker bets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
But they have now added strong away performances to their armoury, with a solid defensive display on Tuesday allowing Jens Petter Hauge and Hakon Evjen to dish out two sucker punches.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
If you are a salesman, in other words, there is a tremendous temptation to try to spot the sucker.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
That means dupes are just one of many issues facing home furnishing and improvement stocks that may leave investors feeling like suckers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 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
In one 300-yard length of shoreline, 600 dead fish were counted, including brown trout, whitefish, and suckers.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Don’t miss: ‘Don’t get suckered like I did’: I paid $185 to the wrong passport website.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
First, don’t assume you’re too sophisticated to be suckered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
I still cannot believe so many Americans got suckered so badly.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025
Carse showed agility to hold Tom Latham one-handed in his follow-through, then suckered Rachin Ravindra into edging a wide one.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
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
