sucker

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 particular sucker for that sort of thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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

In the case of Pederson, the out-of-work cook who lost his entire stake, he had fallen for a category rife with sucker bets: mention markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

“Walowick shot a pig and cut the sucker up,” Peewee said.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

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

Remember how Roger Clemens used to wander back to baseball after letting the rest of those suckers suffer through spring training and the early schedule?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

With its five arms spread out against the rock to which the abalone is fastened, it holds the shell with its suckers, and then begins to lift itself.

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

Don’t miss: ‘Don’t get suckered like I did’: I paid $185 to the wrong passport website.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 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

I imagined them recounting stories of the various customers they had suckered during the day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

It was actually Bashir who benefitted from the work done by Wood and Atkinson, as both Mikyle Louis and Kirk McKenzie were softened up by the pace, then suckered in by the spin.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 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

On the other hand, harvesting rooted shoots from a suckering woody shrub, like twig dogwood, lilac, rugosa rose or raspberries, yields almost instant results and a new plant.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022

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