Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucked (up to)
Verb
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The Exorcism Theory Something evil has attached itself to our victim and must be coaxed out.—
Ravi Gupta,
New York Daily News,
10 June 2026 -
Obama coaxed the architects to create an iconic element, which was the genesis of the tower.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
7 June 2026
Verb
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The Heated Rivalry cast being fawned over by celebrities at a fancy Hollywood party?—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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Especially Jeanie, who remembered how her father, Jerry Buss, had fawned over Davis during Davis’s Kentucky days.—
The Athletic NBA Staff,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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He’s cajoled and he’s threatened.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
7 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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According to Filomeno Aguilar, Jr, once the Europeans were gone, the hacenderos kowtowed to the Americans, offering the island as a protectorate in the hopes of securing favorable access to the lucrative US market for their sugar.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Nov. 2025
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That’s been the experience of big law firms and major universities that kowtowed to Trump in his anti-DEI drive this year.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
Verb
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The first name that caught his eye was Nicklas Lidstrom, the great Detroit Red Wing, whom Werenski idolized as a boy growing up in Michigan.—
Aaron Portzline,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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As a child Modrić idolized the Yugoslav (later Croatian) footballer Zvonimir Boban.—
Sanat Pai Raikar,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 June 2026
Verb
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After being buttered up, the AI or the evildoer lures them into the evil intricacies.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
16 July 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 18 Jun. 2026.
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