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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shanghaied
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Los Angeles police have arrested a 19-year-old woman suspected of attacking a hot dog street vendor in downtown Los Angeles in a violent episode that was captured on video and sparked public outrage.
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Her family proudly captured the moment at graduation the next week, as her classmates laughed and cheered along, based on footage shared with the AJC.
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While the war ended years before, the hostility spread from the stands — with skirmishes among supporters — into the field, when Maradona tricked the referee and the world with the World Cup’s most infamous goal, punching the ball into the net with his fist above England’s goalie Peter Shilton.
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The sample that tricked the most people came from a robot Bram Stoker.
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They were forced on kidnapped and sold Africans who were brutally crammed into ships as well as in slave markets in the Deep South.
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During their journey to the United States, Jacob saw dead bodies while trekking through the jungle, was kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint with his parents, witnessed a rape, and had to sell candy and beg for money, his dad said.
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The trick is to not get hoodwinked by the illusion of a deal.
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To this day, a portion of the left-wing Democratic elite views Obama as a charlatan who hoodwinked their voters into supporting him.
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After making off with a substantial stack of cash from her job to fund a new life with boyfriend Sam Loomis (John Gavin), she gets waylaid by a rainstorm and stops to spend the night at the Bates Motel, run by awkward mama’s boy Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).
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Then, minutes into the speech, Santos posted on X that he had been waylaid at the airport.
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Some people in Israel say Netanyahu, in a way, deceived Trump.
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One is to emphasize Iago—the guileful, insinuating convincingness of this malicious supervillain, who works on Othello to the point where any reasonable man would be deceived and fooled and worked into a rage that can lead to such a catastrophe.
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Aemond was named Prince Regent in the aftermath, and seized control of the Iron Throne while Aegon recovered.
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But in March, environmental authorities seized 550 head of cattle and issued 21 citations, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
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Beside tourists and even New Yorkers being duped, the thousands of fewer official tickets being sold each day is costing NPS and NYC money.
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But the victim, realizing he’d been duped, had reached out to police.
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“Shanghaied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shanghaied. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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