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Recent Examples of suctionYour doctor may recommend an over-the-counter medication such as Tylenol to reduce fever, or nasal saline drops and suctioning to clear a stuffy nose.—Kendrick Marshall, Sacramento Bee, 10 Jan. 2025 A lot of guys are starting to explore the idea that clothes do not have to be suctioned onto your body.—James Powel, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025 While some surgeons routinely suction the jowls when contouring the jawline, others avoid them, staying below the jawbone and giving a wide berth to the delicate nerve.—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 20 Nov. 2024 The inflation and deflation of the balloon acts as a suctioning force to help draw blood flow out from the heart during its contraction phase.—Christopher Lee, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for suction
There was no free agency, no World Hockey Association siphoning off talent as in the 1970s, no true NHL entry draft.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
The reality is that siphoning road dollars for public transit would mean that critical projects to repair functionally obsolete bridges and unsafe roads in Cook County and across the state would no longer proceed as planned.
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