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Recent Examples of Synonyms for targeted
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In 2023, two adults harassed a 9-year-old child at an elementary school track meet.
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The operation, ProPublica found, ensnared innocent residents of the majority-Black city who said they were targeted and harassed because of their race.
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In the Chicago area, officials said three men captured a victim and shot him multiple times in the head and allegedly taunted his mother.
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Tournament favorites France, for example, have so thoroughly taunted and tormented their opponents that anything short of the final would seem an injustice at this point.
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The three-paragraph note compared Lyons to a Nazi and predicted that Lyons would be tormented by his own conscience.
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Tournament favorites France, for example, have so thoroughly taunted and tormented their opponents that anything short of the final would seem an injustice at this point.
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Scheierman also hit two earlier threes, grabbed five rebounds and pestered Gilgeous-Alexander to force a third-quarter turnover to help Boston take down the defending NBA champions 119-109.
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My own parents met coming out of a movie theater in New Britain when my less than suave Coast Guard father pestered my mother for a date.
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On that night in March, to the surprise of nobody, Arsenal ran their mid-table Premier League hosts ragged, beating them 5-1, with Henry and Freddie Ljungberg scoring twice, and Kolo Toure netting the other.
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Spurs center Victor Wembanyama baited Towns and Knicks center Mitchell Robinson into fouls.
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There are baited Japanese beetle traps, but research at the University of Kentucky shows that the traps attract many more beetles than are actually caught.
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When Riley returned to the table, La La told me that his high profile in the city sometimes bugged her, because fans were always interrupting them, even sitting down at their table.
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Upon arriving at big-league camp this spring, Rojas said the different grip initially bugged him.
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Bryant Vincent’s team has teased in each of his first two years in Monroe, starting 3-1 last season before the roof caved in with eight straight setbacks.
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While the flagship movie franchise is coming to an end, Diesel previously teased that NBCUniversal has four TV shows in development from the Fast & Furious world.
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“Targeted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/targeted. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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