as in to deceive
to cause to believe what is untrue
she was sucked in by a scam that was run by a shady outfit selling time-shares
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Recent Examples of suck in
To clarify, engaging your core and sucking in your stomach are two entirely different actions.
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Dana Solomon, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2025
Drive through deep water, and your diffs may also suck in a little bit of moisture, slowly polluting the oil that lubricates them.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2025
Related article Engaging your core is not the same as sucking in your belly.
—Dana Santas, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
In the past 15 years alone, Tesla, Musk’s $1.1 trillion company, and SpaceX, his $350 billion valuation company, have sucked in a stunning $30 billion in public dollars.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Dana Solomon, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2025
Drive through deep water, and your diffs may also suck in a little bit of moisture, slowly polluting the oil that lubricates them.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2025
Related article Engaging your core is not the same as sucking in your belly.
—Dana Santas, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
In the past 15 years alone, Tesla, Musk’s $1.1 trillion company, and SpaceX, his $350 billion valuation company, have sucked in a stunning $30 billion in public dollars.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suck in
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That hasn’t stopped Liverpool using him to distract and deceive opponents when free kicks are won, however.—
Gregg Evans,
New York Times,
8 May 2025
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She was also found guilty of deceiving other officials about the man's identity.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 May 2025
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Life at the house seems more entertaining, but is that just a foolish fantasy designed to trick us into thinking that there is safe harbor somewhere?—
Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2025
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Their goal is to trick people into sharing their Medicare or Social Security number.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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Don’t let the name fool you: Apple TV+’s new science-fiction series Murderbot isn’t actually about a rampaging robot killing everything in sight, though Alexander Skarsgard’s SecUnit certainly ponders the idea from time to time.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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One common jailbreak involved fooling ChatGPT by asking it to role-play as a different AI—one that had no rules and was allowed to write phishing e-mails.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
7 May 2025
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“Suck in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suck%20in. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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