Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucked (up to)
Verb
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The goal of the study was to see whether or not participants could be coaxed into valuing a specific trait more purely based on experience alone.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025 -
Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.—
Chris Morocco,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Investors won’t be cajoled by pressure from the Oval Office to continue buying either, said Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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But the Virgin Mary and the angels had cajoled him into granting humankind one last chance to repent.—
Michael Robbins,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said that the suspect, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, appeared to have idolized many of the mass shooters who had gone before them.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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Fein had long idolized the legendary producer and creator of the Wall of Sound.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Sucked (up to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucked%20%28up%20to%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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