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sitting duck



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In my opinion, I could be a sitting duck.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

All the time, Stern feared his boat was a sitting duck for Venezuelan security forces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Marked up under his right eye, Yarde was not quite a sitting duck yet but was not winning rounds either - perhaps guilty of showing the champion too much respect.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

As the avian flu continues to threaten poultry farms and wildlife, are factory farms a sitting duck?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2024

Now he was waddling around in the little house like a sitting duck.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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