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hooked

[hookt] / hʊkt /


ADJECTIVE
bent, angled
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST


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That’s hooked Falcon and her boyfriend, Hirael de Jesus.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

"We couldn't believe that we had actually hooked into one."

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Eventually, the companies hit on the solution: Get the customers hooked.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

One of them apparently hooked the fish, but the shark spat out the bait, according to Kohanchi’s account of events in the video.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

He pointed to someone in a glassed-in room taking samples out of a petri dish with a pipette and putting it under a large, heavy-duty microscope hooked up to a computer monitor.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste




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