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Recent Examples of suck
Looking to give socks that don’t suck this holiday season?
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Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
Carolyn Forté, executive director of the Good Housekeeping Institute's Home Appliances & Cleaning Products Lab, created a printable checklist to make sure keeping the house neat doesn't suck up endless hours of time on weekends anymore.
—Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
And the downpours keep coming, a couple of them a year now where there used to be none, adding moisture that the pumps cannot suck away.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
Ready to kick off spooky season with a vampire series that doesn't suck?
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 30 Sep. 2022
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Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
Carolyn Forté, executive director of the Good Housekeeping Institute's Home Appliances & Cleaning Products Lab, created a printable checklist to make sure keeping the house neat doesn't suck up endless hours of time on weekends anymore.
—Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
And the downpours keep coming, a couple of them a year now where there used to be none, adding moisture that the pumps cannot suck away.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
Ready to kick off spooky season with a vampire series that doesn't suck?
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 30 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suck
smell
Verb
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Your armpits smell when the bacteria on your skin mix with the sweat your body produces.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
18 June 2025
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In a later shift, Oscar gets the shirt back and smells it in private, taking in the scent of Wilder now mixed with his own.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
17 June 2025
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“Suck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suck. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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