sucker
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“So he wrote ‘Pinball Wizard,’ which he knew I’d be a sucker for.”
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
On Amazon, you can get blue-blockers for $20—if you want to be a sucker whose eyes are drowning in other short-wavelength light!
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
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 was a sucker for mochi and figured that would cheer me up.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
He asks it softly, but it’s hard as a sucker punch in the gut.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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
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
Even actors, the biggest suckers for rewarding bold performances involving transformation, wouldn’t nominate him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
"These were something we clearly hadn't seen before, with a large diameter and big suckers - far too big for the common curled octopus we see around the shore here."
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
The doctor usually gave her suckers, which made Sam and me jealous.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
Consider this a reminder to everyone: Don’t get suckered like I did into using a third-party website.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
First, don’t assume you’re too sophisticated to be suckered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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
No whiff of the streetwise bunch who suckered Croatia and Poland within days of each other last November.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
Then I got suckered into a school-yard comeback I should have seen coming.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
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
