as in to cheat
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
victimized by a confidence man with a slick story
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Recent Examples of victimize
So with a tremendous level of satisfaction for the characters and the audience, he was brutally killed the way so many women who had been victimized were killed in Gilead before [at the end of season four].
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Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
Wilson’s accuracy has been far too erratic (57% completion percentage in his career), but he has been victimized by circumstances, too.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
There’s no perfect response to being victimized, which is why characters like Flamingo and her guardian Boa (Paula Dinamarca), the commune’s rankled matriarch, end up with such wildly divergent stories.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 May 2025
By Sunday, the Bulldogs’ pitchers had been victimized enough and walked Daniels three times after his first inning line-out.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2025
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Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
Wilson’s accuracy has been far too erratic (57% completion percentage in his career), but he has been victimized by circumstances, too.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
There’s no perfect response to being victimized, which is why characters like Flamingo and her guardian Boa (Paula Dinamarca), the commune’s rankled matriarch, end up with such wildly divergent stories.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 May 2025
By Sunday, the Bulldogs’ pitchers had been victimized enough and walked Daniels three times after his first inning line-out.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for victimize
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The responsibility and reasoning behind infidelity lie solely with the person who cheated.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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After reconciling, the former couple still faced several challenges, including cheating allegations and public social media fallouts.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
30 May 2025
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And yet, it’s still rooted in something real, because Perry plucked much of the heavy-handed dialog Keery delivers verbatim from the Wowee Zowee press kit, contemporaneous Malkmus interviews, and things Malkmus told Perry himself.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2025
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The eggs, of course, are plucked from the hen house each morning.—
Matthew Monagan,
Travel + Leisure,
3 June 2025
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In some towns, utility poles were removed so the caravans could squeeze through.—
Angela Jackson,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Hundreds of people squeezed into the Jewish Community Center in Boulder, Colo., for a vigil that featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses of the firebombing attack in the city’s downtown, after a federal judge blocked the deportation of the suspect’s family.—
Colleen Slevin,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Rough as that was, a fielding mistake may have stung worse.—
Compiled From Wire Reports,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 June 2025
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According to news stories, Macron was stung by the report’s lukewarm reception in Algeria.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Night shift in a teeming academic hospital can feel like a relentlessly heaving freighter, and I’d been hustling from ward to ward bailing water; this task was just another on my scut list.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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There are a lot of risks doing that, but if someone wants to go all in and hustle for success, this can be a good option.—
Joseph Drups,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Even children who are online only in small doses likely see false or inaccurate information that might deceive them.—
Evan Orticio,
Scientific American,
2 June 2025
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In November, Dove pleaded guilty in Gaston County to a dozen felony charges related to illegally accessing police computer systems and helping someone deceive a polygraph test, The Gaston Gazette reported.—
Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
30 May 2025
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Federal prosecutors in Texas identified 80 victims defrauded of nearly $40 million by Charles Carrier since 2018.—
Anjeanette Damon,
ProPublica,
30 May 2025
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Then they were convicted of conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in loans.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
29 May 2025
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The men beat 27-year-old Chin with a baseball bat, cracking his skull.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
31 May 2025
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Madrid were soundly beaten 5-1 on aggregate by Arsenal in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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“Victimize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victimize. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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