fleeced

past tense of fleece

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fleeced He was emboldened by the Netflix doc to make another Herschel Walker trade and got fleeced! Jon MacHota, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025 All the trucks that Buck Strickland buys his investors in episode 10 are from Bronco Barry’s car dealership, which fleeced Bobby into buying a horse a few episodes earlier. Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2025 Taxpayers are fleeced, boldly and out in the open. Frank Ricci, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fleeced
Verb
  • James' office probed allegations that the organization inflated the former president's net worth by billions of dollars and cheated lenders and others with false and misleading financial statements.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Learn about the latest scam that has cheated companies out of millions.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The landscapes feel plucked from an epic poem, and centuries of battles, folklore, and ancient clans set the tone for a vibrant culture steeped in history.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Tradition meets contemporary design with this sculptural vessel that looks like it was plucked from a contemporary art exhibition.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • My eyes stung, the tears ready to spill.
    Sofía Pereda, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Algren, stung by Beauvoir’s independence, treated her miserably.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of slowly taking the ball out of the rim, the Celtics hustled to push the ball up court.
    Jay King, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Without any additional hesitation, McMillian hustled over to the white backdrop to pose alongside Curry.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Freeman took rookie Chad Patrick deep for the first Dodgers run, and his teammates squeezed a second run out of Brewers closer Abner Uribe in the ninth.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The iPhone 17′s margin could also be squeezed by an unfavorable product mix and a higher bill of materials cost.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gabriel has royally screwed the pooch.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This screwed a lot of people over.
    Hadley Hitson, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tish only swindled the bank out of $19,000.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
  • You might be swindled or lied to.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • My take on Don’t Think is that becoming overly cerebral, stuck exclusively in my head, inhibits flow.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The recurrent staging only makes the show’s narrative feel more insular, which works fine when there’s forward momentum, but this one is stuck looking backward.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Fleeced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fleeced. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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