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The last is dumping iron dust into the Southern Ocean to provoke phytoplankton blooms that would suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a move that set off a backlash when an American entrepreneur tried it off Canada in 2012.
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Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
This new trailer gives a sense of the franchise's history, opening with footage of the young Kevin Flynn playing the 1982 version of TRON at his arcade before being sucked into the game world's grid.
—ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
Unlike fires in wilderness areas, which mostly consume vegetation, this breed of urban conflagration sucks up buildings, cars and their contents, spitting hazards well beyond the burn area.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
Flea or Chigger Bites Fleas are tiny parasites that bite humans and animals to suck their blood.
—Carrie Madormo, Health, 10 Sep. 2025
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Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
This new trailer gives a sense of the franchise's history, opening with footage of the young Kevin Flynn playing the 1982 version of TRON at his arcade before being sucked into the game world's grid.
—ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
Unlike fires in wilderness areas, which mostly consume vegetation, this breed of urban conflagration sucks up buildings, cars and their contents, spitting hazards well beyond the burn area.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
Flea or Chigger Bites Fleas are tiny parasites that bite humans and animals to suck their blood.
—Carrie Madormo, Health, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suck
smell
Verb
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Avoid adding smelly meats, fruit rinds or other sweet-smelling food scraps to your compost.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Sep. 2025
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Vrabel probably smells blood in the water.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Suck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suck. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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