sucker

The Three Lions were five minutes from a first final appearance in 60 years, until the defending champions produced a two-goal sucker punch to rescue a 2-1 win.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 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 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

I was tempted to go to it, but that might be a sucker move.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

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

A giant squid was washed up dead at nearby Newburgh in 1998, but the suckers on the Forvie arms did not have teeth like a squid's.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

That means dupes are just one of many issues facing home furnishing and improvement stocks that may leave investors feeling like suckers.

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

The innocent-faced O’Connor excels at crooks and suckers and fittingly, his Jud describes himself as “young, dumb and full of Christ.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

The center came up, but the suckers on either end wouldn’t lift.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

From Carse's first ball after tea, Rachin Ravindra was suckered into a pull, only finding Jacob Bethell at deep mid-wicket.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

Then I got suckered into a school-yard comeback I should have seen coming.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Sadly, disingenuous trolling is often far too successful at suckering people into engagement.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2023

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

“Not suckering me here, are you, Jace? Tell you what, how about fleecing me for one pound?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell