as in cheated
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 victimized
Yards from San Diego to Arizona and even the famed Huntington botanical gardens in San Marino have all been victimized.
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Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
Opposite Jennings, fellow outside linebacker K’Lavon Chaisson got victimized on one of the Jets’ longest runs of the game, but otherwise was a positive force throughout with a pass deflection, run stuff and a hurry.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
According to a 2021 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, individuals with disabilities are four times more likely to be victimized by serious violent crime compared to individuals without disabilities.
—Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 29 Dec. 2025
And there are few, if any, ethically and empirically sound ways to test whether a campus fortified with ShotSpotter or the newest AI surveillance cameras is less likely to experience an active shooter incident because the probability of that school being victimized is already so low.
—Emily Greene-Colozzi, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
And at least 36 teen boys have died by suicide after being victimized by financial sextortion, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 17 Dec. 2025
My office is committed to bringing stability back into the lives of those who have been victimized.
—Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
This can also be intergenerational memory and those who were victimized by genocidal progroms, something Lasky feels in her body while walking around Berlin.
—Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
This is about the message sent, with nobody on defense seeming to care as much as those on the offense victimized by the failures.
—Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for victimized
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Bondi forgave a crime that had put people’s lives at risk and cheated the government of vaccine doses that could have been given to others.—
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The tension resurfaced when her sister discovered her partner had cheated again and asked to stay at the poster’s home with both children.—
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Mountain View Fire Rescue hustled to get to a fire caused by a power pole that blew down.—
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My mother—an incredible single mom of four kids—just hustled.—
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While Marty Supreme is only loosely inspired by Reisman, there are several sequences and character details plucked from his life.—
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Arsene Wenger was plucked from ‘Japan’, as Sir Alex Ferguson memorably enunciated it, in 1996.—
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Tuesday’s loss in Orlando stung a little more for the Miami Heat than the usual December loss during a long 82-game regular season.—
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But still, some losses have stung harder than others.—
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At one point, the fear that squeezed my stomach tighter and tighter gave way to stupefaction.—
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Even if those increases eventually unwind, the impact will fall on households that have already been squeezed for decades, and many households are no longer assuming prices will fall back—they’ve been burned too often.—
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Got screwed when the referee missed an obvious blow to the head that gave the Pats a field goal.—
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Cameramen everywhere are getting screwed by Hudson Williams’s favorite pose, the double-bird.—
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But there is a primal scream stuck in our collective throat.—
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Even after the pick-less Young trade, there does seem to be a pathway present for the Heat to restock with draft picks while, like the Hawks, continually stuck in play-in-ville.—
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Challengers should give Marylanders the option to choose a new direction and remove the need to confront the painful reality that they were deceived.—
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Trump told people that Rupert deceived him.—
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“Victimized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victimized. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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