sitting ducks

plural of sitting duck

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sitting ducks Club owners are kind of sitting ducks. Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025 Prisoners feared they were purposefully trapped in the A Tunnel, sitting ducks for a response from corrections officers. Michael Collins, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025 Those lucky/sitting ducks were at the center of a manifold creative pressure, like the core of a planet pulled spherical by gravity. Kate Colby october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025 Russian forces trapped in Ukraine would have been sitting ducks for NATO missiles and aircraft. Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025 Without the government’s ability to share robust intelligence about new attack methods, SMBs become sitting ducks for cybercriminals who specifically target organizations that can’t afford to lose days or weeks. Cynthia Kaiser, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sitting ducks
Noun
  • Building alliances before a crisis or conflict arises can actually help deter attacks, or ensure that they are deflected to easier targets.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Estonia and the other Baltic states are among the highest spenders in NATO on defense developments, but some members, such as Spain, have lagged on meeting those targets.
    Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The study, the first of its kind locally, was conducted by Sojourner Family Peace Center in Milwaukee, the state's largest advocacy organization for victims of domestic violence.
    Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Starring in one of the series’ most enduring scenes, Corcoran, who plays Dawn as one of Art’s first on-screen victims, was hung upside down by her ankles.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Sitting ducks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sitting%20ducks. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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