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

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

I was a sucker for mochi and figured that would cheer me up.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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

As I was standing at the bus stop with Renee, a massive gust whipped that sucker right off my head and down the sidewalk.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

Darn near would be, if not for the Raptors, those suckers — er, that one team whose fans still associate positive feelings with Kawhi.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

"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

But instead of being rightfully proud, everybody just feels like suckers, thanks to Link.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Consider this a reminder to everyone: Don’t get suckered like I did into using a third-party website.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

They don’t have to outrun the bear, they just have to be faster than whatever normie investor gets suckered into buying SpaceX when it enters the index without being properly seasoned.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

Just like the first innings, Nitish Kumar Reddy found movement down the slope, and suckered in Crawley.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025

This—along with keeping her maiden name, Jackson, rather than calling herself Mrs. Ugliano—was proof that she wasn’t totally suckered by Gabe.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

A mounding shrub with a modest suckering habit, the plant produces deliciously fragrant pink or white blooms in summer against pristine foliage, followed by a showy crop of bright red hips in fall.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

Pearce showed me many spicebush specimens that were browsed but are now suckering afresh.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021

Most problematically, Vladimir’s and Estragon’s embraces, so necessary to the play’s emotional equilibrium, are about as warm here as octopi suckering up to opposite sides of a glass wall.

From New York Times ● May 7, 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

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