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verb

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Recent Examples of gull
Noun
Staffers toyed with keeping the oysters in their dockside cages, and waiting to plant them at the fort, a manmade island fortress that never saw battle, but has become a sanctuary for cormorants, gulls and other seabirds. Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2025 Louisiana restored a bird island, home to brown pelicans, herons and gulls. Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
People will be gulled into coughing up their life savings, playing unwitting roles in scams, or joining toxic movements. Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2023 The fantasy that the privileged are easily gulled has a powerful lure. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for gull
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gull
Noun
  • Just the luck of the draw, the bouncing balls, and thanks for your services, suckers….
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 12 June 2025
  • Yes, ultimately, Joe fell for the lie, but not like a sucker.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Even though baby clothes and newborn diapers feel too tiny to wreak havoc, don’t be fooled!
    Briana Feigon, Architectural Digest, 19 June 2025
  • Perhaps that’s what fans were griping about last year — that Burns didn’t have it anymore and Slavin was papering over all those issues, enough to fool this model.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Minute after minute, little waves hit a granite cliff, or year after year, the wings of pigeons vary slightly.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • Lilian listened to the pigeons on the roof cooing, in the same manner that their cousins cooed in Belfast or Bruges or Barcelona.
    Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
Verb
  • That was the crux of the latest Gmail attack, tricking users into sharing codes.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • But rather than trying to trick users into heading to a fake website, the visitor is instead taken to the brand's legitimate website, with a small but dangerous difference.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • The victim has suffered trauma to the head from a blunt object, but did not appear to be shot, police said.
    Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
  • He was arrested in January 2024 after one of his victims came forward to police.
    Olivia Kemp, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • The person is not trying to deceive or control, but the behavior still affects others and requires self awareness and growth to correct.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
  • Where was this sense of urgency when the mullahs were attempting to deceive U.N. inspectors while sandbagging U.S. efforts to diplomatically scuttle the country’s nuclear efforts?
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025

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“Gull.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gull. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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