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as in done
facing certain defeat, disaster, or death all our savings went for lottery tickets, and now we're sunk

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verb

past participle of sink
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Recent Examples of sunk
Adjective
One of their best times was a day where their biggest haul was a bunch of sunk bushes near the shore, where all three of them managed to tangle their lines. Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2022 An additional 20 fans, about the size of small trucks, destined for Russia are sitting on her factory floor — a sunk cost of €350,000. New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
Verb
And over the past three years, each of those numbers has sunk. Noah White, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025 The rapid escalation of trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies has sunk stocks, rattling investors and industries by igniting fears of a repeat of the tit-for-tat tariff battle in spring, when levies on Chinese and American imports soared to around 145% and 120% respectively. John Liu, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sunk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunk
Adjective
  • Owner Jason Boso fixed that, infusing $2 million into the 10-year-old bar on better bathrooms, a covered section of the patio and a re-done kitchen.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
Verb
  • Plus, the company outlook index deteriorated sharply, indicating an increasingly negative sentiment about future conditions.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In the years before her death, Warren’s relationship with his mother had deteriorated.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These rockets were the first to be reusable and plunged the cost of a launch from ten thousand dollars or more per kilogram to around one or two thousand dollars per kilogram.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Quaid plunged back into parenthood in 2007 at age 53, welcoming twins Thomas and Grace in 2007 with now-ex-wife Kimberly Buffington.
    Anya Leon, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
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  • When it was established in 1940, GSMNP swallowed up several communities, and the ruins of tiny timber towns can still be found.
    Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Consuelos, 54, plays billionaire Tripp Houser in the show, who was saved by Hen after he was swallowed by a whale, and in return, sent her and Athena into space.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The celebration was short-lived, however, when the smallest of the whales, a yearling biologists had named Bone and Inuit had named Kanik (or Snowflake) disappeared beneath the ice for good.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The resilience that disappeared north of the border was back.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2023, the NFL suspended Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams, who missed four games after his initial six-game suspension was reduced, for placing a bet on a non-NFL game from an NFL facility.
    Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • However, Deadline reported that Grey's Anatomy had reduced the minimum guarantees for series regulars from 18 episodes per season to 14 during its 2024-25 season.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The candidate looks appropriately humiliated to be shouted down by a group of peaceful citizens voicing reasonable opposition, but the stakes are low.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There was this huge peak between 2000 and about 2018 where there was a decentralized anti-Fascist movement that’s responsible for Richard Spencer going home, for Matthew Heimbach being humiliated.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • American has fallen behind large rivals Delta Air Lines and United Airlines in the post-Covid luxury travel boom that has taken Seoul spa vacations and 40th birthday bashes abroad out of the chat and armed millions of consumers with high-end rewards credit cards.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The bigger problem is that almost all of Liverpool’s new additions have fallen well short of expectations so far, Hugo Ekitike aside.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Sunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunk. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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