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Recent Examples of suck
These tiny insects live wherever there are hackberry trees and suck on their juices.
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Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
But bubbly, unstrategic, free-spirited Tallulah also has a tendency to suck up all the oxygen in a city, relegating Maia to the role of sidekick.
—Judy Berman, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
James Guimaraes was on mile seven of his last training run for the New York City Marathon when he got sucked into a bidding war.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2025
Robert’s life sucks, right down to his depressingly sparse apartment.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
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Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
But bubbly, unstrategic, free-spirited Tallulah also has a tendency to suck up all the oxygen in a city, relegating Maia to the role of sidekick.
—Judy Berman, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
James Guimaraes was on mile seven of his last training run for the New York City Marathon when he got sucked into a bidding war.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2025
Robert’s life sucks, right down to his depressingly sparse apartment.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suck
smell
Verb
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Later, the sleeper-inners among the season’s house guests will stumble downstairs well after the whole house has started to smell, well, like Thanksgiving.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
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Open air is what [Texas] smells like.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Suck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suck. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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