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Recent Examples of suck
Moody new girl Coley moves to a small town in Oregon after the death of her mother to live with her dad (Zach Braff), an otherwise invisible presence in her life growing up, when she gets sucked into the orbit of popular girl Sonya, who has a gaggle of friends and a face full of freckles.
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Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
The image in question features Grande crouched on the ground while sucking a lollipop and loving a happy black dog.
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Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2026
Though a supermassive black hole can affect its host galaxy, Earth is in no danger of being sucked up or taken into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center.
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Mary Ogborn,
The Conversation,
25 June 2026
The new landscape of the league has created a shorter life span for sucking.
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Candace Buckner,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
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Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
The image in question features Grande crouched on the ground while sucking a lollipop and loving a happy black dog.
—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2026
Though a supermassive black hole can affect its host galaxy, Earth is in no danger of being sucked up or taken into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center.
—
Mary Ogborn,
The Conversation,
25 June 2026
The new landscape of the league has created a shorter life span for sucking.
—
Candace Buckner,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suck
smell
Verb
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In a strange twist, the potential buyer reportedly smelled a rat and reached out to someone with the company, to make sure the machinery hadn’t been stolen.
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Plug-ins, candles and sprays running at the same time generate competing scent signals, which is part of why a house can smell different in every room and not in a good way.
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“Suck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suck. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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