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Recent Examples of sucked
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.
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ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
Think about the inflationary era of 2022 — prices were high and rising faster than most Americans had ever experienced, which, to borrow a technical term, sucked.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
What sucked was how it was handled.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
So Cali sucked her teeth, chuckling.
—Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Don’t take that to mean that all the fun’s been sucked out, though; far from it.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Eugene Domingo stars as Mauricia, a disrespected restaurant worker who, while watching soap operas one night, gets sucked through her TV screen into a training academy for villains.
—PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
While flying a shuttlecraft, she gets sucked into a wormhole and crashes onto a barren moon.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
These young men were sucked into the manosphere.
—Priya Kaur, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
Think about the inflationary era of 2022 — prices were high and rising faster than most Americans had ever experienced, which, to borrow a technical term, sucked.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
What sucked was how it was handled.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
So Cali sucked her teeth, chuckling.
—Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Don’t take that to mean that all the fun’s been sucked out, though; far from it.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Eugene Domingo stars as Mauricia, a disrespected restaurant worker who, while watching soap operas one night, gets sucked through her TV screen into a training academy for villains.
—PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
While flying a shuttlecraft, she gets sucked into a wormhole and crashes onto a barren moon.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
These young men were sucked into the manosphere.
—Priya Kaur, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucked
smelled
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My grandma always slept with curlers in her hair to have perfect spirals the next day, and my mom’s jet-black hair was always long, glossy, and smelled amazing.—
Natasha López,
Refinery29,
10 Sep. 2025
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The vape smoke smelled like unicorn farts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Sucked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucked. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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