1
as in tormenters
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
I try to ignore the rude comments baiters leave on the website
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2
as in seducers
one that tries to get a person to give in to a desire
my sister is quite the mischievous baiter, always offering candy even though she knows I'm on a diet
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Noun
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Unauthorized vendors or solicitors of any kind.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025 -
Phishing texts claiming that tolls haven’t been paid or packages can’t be delivered, calls from solicitors promising to erase debt, malware emails offering winnings from a sweepstakes that no one ever entered.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The novel’s publisher teases that Impostor will satisfy fans in search of psychological crime dramas like Netflix’s Unknown Number and Mindhunter.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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Read on for the highlights of the episode, then make sure to keep scrolling to see Quinto’s teases about the rest of the season.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
22 Sep. 2025
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Harris was promoting her new memoir in front of 1,500 people at the Town Hall, in Midtown Manhattan, when the event was disrupted by several hecklers.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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While touring the special, Edelman dealt with hecklers and haters, but mostly audience members who wanted to share with the comedian their experiences with assimilation, Judaism and antisemitism.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For decades, generals, coup-plotters, and torturers walked free under the shield of amnesty laws passed after the country’s 21-year dictatorship.—
Julia Vargas Jones,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Each regime, from the Pahlavi dynasty to the Islamic Republic, claimed to uphold human rights and castigated its predecessors as torturers, only to ratchet up the incarceration of political opponents.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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At one point during Knox’s meeting with Mignini, Knox’s mother hears sirens from far away and begins to panic — thinking police are on their way to arrest Knox again.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Constant police sirens blared throughout the maze.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There appears to be no limit to his sensitivity or his determination to humble his tormentors.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
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But can the Yankees really stare down their tormentors and finally best Houston in a playoff format?—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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Using it to describe this week’s attack on Huwara – or other similar attacks in Israel or Palestine – effectively puts Israel in the place of the Jews’ historic persecutors.—
Joshua Shanes,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2023
Noun
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The attackers use a technique called SEO poisoning.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Approximately 50 soldiers guarding the vehicles attempted to repel the attackers, presidential spokesperson Carolina Jaramillo said, without specifying whether anyone was injured.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Baiters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baiters. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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