SUCKER PUNCHED Synonyms: 109 Similar Words

sucker punched

verb

past tense of sucker punch

as in knocked down

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When the flames were knocked down, firefighters determined no one was injured, King said.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
Brock Bowers is likely out of this game still, so the passing game gets knocked down a bit.

— David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026

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Separately, police said another woman was found dead on Sunday in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, her body wrapped in a duvet and dumped near a dam.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Eventually, the firms dumped the valuable slag into waste piles and wrote off the metals inside.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026

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Wheaton North kicked deep this time, and Thomas ran for a pair of first downs to secure Wheaton Warrenville South’s win.

— Mike McGraw, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026
Many of those deals would have likely kicked into high gear in fiscal 2026, suggesting more growth in the business is to come.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026

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Budget proposals for the past two years have slashed NASA’s science funding, and some of the nation’s best and brightest minds have now left the space agency because of uncertainty about their role in its future.

— Eric Niiler, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
Those tariffs were slashed in May 2025 after trade negotiators in Switzerland struck a temporary deal, which was extended in mid-August.

— Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026

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Adelaide’s arrival even bumped Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh (King Charles’s youngest brother), out of the top 15 spots.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 20 Sep. 2026
Google bumped the Pixel Watch 5 by $50, bringing it to an identical $399 base price as Apple's entry model.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

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As tales of touring and recording with Diddy in other episodes fail to lead to a query about what the Bad Boy founder has been up to since 2024, the doc feels time-stamped and a few considerably eventful years old for the people who come up.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
There was nothing that had escaped being stamped with the Festival’s ubiquitous emblem–sweets, cigarettes, perfume, even sandals–Specially designed to keep you cool and smartly shod for fun-loving Festival walking!

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

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