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Recent Examples of bitten
The elapid snakes in their studies bit their victims as quickly as the vipers.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Kane was given antibiotics after being bitten on the elbow while farming in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
While on her daily walk, a woman from Texas got bitten in the hand by a street cat—what followed was 48 hours of pain.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
One of Clay’s drivers was badly bitten by a dog and went on workers compensation for a year, while his annual vehicle insurance rates soared fivefold to almost $500,000.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
By the end of each trip, our clothes were soaked and our skin bitten raw by mosquitoes.
—Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Global Denim has been bitten by the hemp bug as well.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
The person infected in Long Island likely got the virus after being bitten by an infected mosquito, the New York State Department of Health said in a statement.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
This is the club that fell victim to the buzzsaw that was the Atlanta Braves in 2021 and felt snake-bitten by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2023.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Kane was given antibiotics after being bitten on the elbow while farming in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
While on her daily walk, a woman from Texas got bitten in the hand by a street cat—what followed was 48 hours of pain.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
One of Clay’s drivers was badly bitten by a dog and went on workers compensation for a year, while his annual vehicle insurance rates soared fivefold to almost $500,000.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
By the end of each trip, our clothes were soaked and our skin bitten raw by mosquitoes.
—Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Global Denim has been bitten by the hemp bug as well.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
The person infected in Long Island likely got the virus after being bitten by an infected mosquito, the New York State Department of Health said in a statement.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
This is the club that fell victim to the buzzsaw that was the Atlanta Braves in 2021 and felt snake-bitten by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2023.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bitten
sucked
Verb
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Every red and blue photon gets sucked into a plant for photosynthesis, just the green ones ricocheting through the understory to form a kind of therapeutic light bath.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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His frequent use of direct-to-camera narration initially seems like a cloying misstep (mostly because so many other movies have sucked the fun out of that device).—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Bitten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitten. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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