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Recent Examples of suck
Boston needs to suck away the overflowing 76ers’ hope during Game 7.
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Jay King, New York Times, 1 May 2026
If bitten by a rattlesnake, victims should stay calm, limit movement, call 911 and seek emergency medical attention, avoiding myths such as sucking out the venom or applying ice.
—Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Building these rudimentary and temporary platforms—something modern gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees still do—would have offered protection from predators and blood-sucking insects.
—Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
As Earth’s tectonic plates shifted, huge volumes of volcanic gas and carbon dioxide transformed the atmosphere, sucking oxygen out of the oceans and devastating shallow-water environments.
—Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2026
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Jay King, New York Times, 1 May 2026
If bitten by a rattlesnake, victims should stay calm, limit movement, call 911 and seek emergency medical attention, avoiding myths such as sucking out the venom or applying ice.
—Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Building these rudimentary and temporary platforms—something modern gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees still do—would have offered protection from predators and blood-sucking insects.
—Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
As Earth’s tectonic plates shifted, huge volumes of volcanic gas and carbon dioxide transformed the atmosphere, sucking oxygen out of the oceans and devastating shallow-water environments.
—Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suck
smell
Verb
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The City of Des Plaines said two residents reported smelling gas earlier Tuesday afternoon.—
Shardaa Gray,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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The air smelled faintly of lunch and feet.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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“Suck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suck. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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