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 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 Hot on the heels of Gigi Hadid’s Valentino Haute Couture opener, the Italian supermodel swept onto the runway in an equally showstopping look from the house’s archives—plucked straight from the Pierpaolo Piccioli era. — Alice Abbiadati, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026 Those also turned to boos on Strand’s first NFL pass, which Horn deflected and Lloyd plucked out of the air at close range. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 21 Sep. 2026

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Producers are already being squeezed between competing supply chains.

— MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
Brands are making more on paper and keeping less in the bank, squeezed from every side by rising ad costs, tariffs and overhead.

— David Born, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of squeezed

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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

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Frazier was a Black sharecropper’s son who’d overcome much hardship, and the insults stung.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
As solitary insects with limited aggression towards humans, the risk of getting stung is often not worth your direct interference.

— Sean Donnelly, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of stung

Verb

Leaders get stuck because of a mindset, a relationship or a system that nobody has ever named out loud.

— Drew McLellan, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Still, getting ourselves out via some traction boards would have saved on money, frustration and the embarrassment that accompanies getting stuck less than a mile from the highway.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of stuck

Verb

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
Sometimes a lid isn’t screwed tightly, and your foundation proves its worth all over the inside of your bag.

— Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of screwed

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Built along a verdant slope edging Bodrum’s Paradise Bay, this contemporary property offers hard-to-beat vistas.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Hastert became a congressional candidate in 1986 and beat the Democrat with 52% of the vote, his smallest margin of victory in a congressional race.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026

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