ratted (on)

past tense of rat (on)

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Verb
  • Advertisement Advertisement The numbers are catching up to a story being told by locals and visitors for several months now, of an eerily empty Vegas Strip and deserted casino floors.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Several Cuban doctors who deserted the mission sued PAHO, claiming the organization benefited from a labor-trafficking scheme in which the Cuban government pocketed about 85 percent of the salary payments made by Brazil.
    Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But what if the bees talked back?
    Elizabeth Bass Parman, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Bader talked with the young fan and gave him an autographed baseball bat.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Before 2014, the building was abandoned and MIA wanted to tear it down.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Drummond is blamed for the deaths of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home's front yard in rural west Tennessee.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The club rejected her for lack of record.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Combine uneven play with 11 penalties and that’s a cocktail even the Florida student section nauseously rejected.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When people violate the rules, the policy instructs the officer to first work to educate the rider to make sure they’re informed, rather than step right to enforcement.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Berry’s approach is informed very much by her own experiences coming up in the rough and tumble of investment banking.
    WWD Staff, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Pre-order offers officially run until September 12, but Deluxe Edition-specific bonuses will likely cut off a day earlier, based on past years.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The White House cut off billions of Harvard’s federal dollars, then tried to block the school’s ability to enroll international students, who for the last four years have made up more than a fourth of the student body.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Ratted (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ratted%20%28on%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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