Thesaurus results for PLUCKED

plucked

verb

past tense of pluck

as in squeezed

to rob by the use of trickery or threats the Internet opened up a whole new medium for con artists to pluck the gullible

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Recent Examples of plucked Some series plucked peripheral movie characters for unnecessary small-screen addendums adventures. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026 The original number was 28,800, but Carolina Herrera designer Wes Gordon’s two children plucked a tulip each to take with them. — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026 Four years later Fontaine plucked another future Hall of Famer, taking outfielder Tony Gwynn in the third round. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 His last one was in the fourth quarter by Curry, who read the short pass and plucked it out of the air for the score. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 Weathers and Warren will give the Yankees two power relievers, plucked from their rotation, as was probably the plan all along. — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 At their most basic, these may consist of just two elements, such as a stone and a sheet of raw steel—that is, an element plucked from the natural world and one of industrial manufacture. — Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 In fact, all four songs sound like they were plucked from previous albums like Midnights or The Tortured Poets Department. — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026 Paired with a prominent pink lip and punctuating updo, the glam appeared as if it were plucked from an early 2000s look book. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026

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Pick it up, however, and there's no mistaking how much battery Bluetti has squeezed inside.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Give members of the business and culture press the excuse to write about the rough economics of linear TV and how late night is particularly squeezed.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of squeezed

Verb

Quickly, the house lights come up, and Lay and family are hustled backstage to get reacquainted.

— Joan Kron, Allure, 28 Sep. 2026
Her mother hustled her to hospital, only for the doctors to realize Accurso’s active imagination had left her in the same predicament as Madeline’s friends.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of hustled

Verb

Kyiv's retaliatory attacks mean Russian exports are now also stuck, further squeezing global supply.

— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026
In a cozy suburb of Minneapolis, a guy in a blue jumpsuit is once again stuck aboard a space station with his robot pals, watching the worst movies ever made.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of stuck

Verb

To Knight, he has been screwed out of those opportunities thanks to The Bloodline – Reigns’ faction of family members who have had his back through thick and thin.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Unavoidably the text has been chopped and channeled, with some swapping of parts, bits of narration screwed into dialogue and events described in a paragraph blown out into scenes.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of screwed

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Huntley led Baltimore to a tying touchdown and 2-point conversion in the last minute of regulation and then scored on a 1-yard sneak in overtime as the Ravens rallied to beat the Atlanta Falcons 30-23 on Sunday night.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
James Hager arrived at Lopez’s Palm Drive home in Key Largo to stop him from beating his on-and-off-again girlfriend, according to Lopez’s arrest report.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026

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