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Recent Examples of sucks
Other high-end finds include platform Ugg boots that can literally elevate your winter wardrobe, plus a Bissell vacuum that sucks up debris and washes floors clean.
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Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Robert’s life sucks, right down to his depressingly sparse apartment.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Your friend sucks as throwing a $2,000 invoice at someone out the blue is not it.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
God knows the music business sucks.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
To win a game and lose a game and win a game and lose a game sucks.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2025
Having been run out of the movie theater for entry without payment and refusing to go back to his abusive home, a 12-year-old boy (Miles Ekhardt) sucks fiercely on his emotional support pacifier while trying to hitchhike his way out of town.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Getting left out of things sucks.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
The disease sucks, but … people don’t feel sorry for me.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Robert’s life sucks, right down to his depressingly sparse apartment.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Your friend sucks as throwing a $2,000 invoice at someone out the blue is not it.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
God knows the music business sucks.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
To win a game and lose a game and win a game and lose a game sucks.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2025
Having been run out of the movie theater for entry without payment and refusing to go back to his abusive home, a 12-year-old boy (Miles Ekhardt) sucks fiercely on his emotional support pacifier while trying to hitchhike his way out of town.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Getting left out of things sucks.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
The disease sucks, but … people don’t feel sorry for me.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucks
smells
Verb
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Open air is what [Texas] smells like.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Both agree that even the rain, somehow, smells different in this country.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Sucks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucks. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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