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suck

[suhk] / sʌk /


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“So many people feel that aging is some grim reality, we have to just suck it up,” he said, “but you can have an enormous impact on these things.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

I knew who they were; I’d heard the single on WNYU, maybe for once the opening band wouldn’t suck.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

I’d rather bust my ass doing this thing, and suck the little bit of meat out of the crab leg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Should I just suck it up, pay the $80 and go?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

I suck in a deep breath and let it out.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

He was something exciting and fresh when he pantsed the pop culture landscape in the late 1990s, but joking about how much everything sucks is a young man’s game.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

"It's really hard, but I know if you are going through something you can get through it too. It sucks."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

It’s like everything sucks, and we know it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

“One of the biggest reasons why people think renting sucks is because they’re not being strategic about it,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

“It sucks that you have to live right next to her,” Sean said.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

Because of the tough economic times and because of the new products like buy-now-pay-later deals that are just sweeping the market, young people are being sucked into more credit-card debt than ever before.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

“We get really sucked into the idea of looking up to someone and wanting to be just like them, and that’s not right,” she said.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

So much methane was released that some of it was sucked into a ventilation intake, setting off gas alarms in the ship's generator room.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The story of a scholar sucked into a historical-conspiratorial rabbit hole, the movie itself is made with a similarly fanatical attention, to both its style and its subject.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The current sucked me under and slammed me into Peach and the black walnut.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

The process, guided by the app, is relatively straightforward: fill the test with saliva by sucking on it for 60 seconds, wait 20 minutes, scan the test, get results.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

The bloc has been sucking up U.S. diesel, crude oil and liquefied natural gas that it once purchased from Russia and the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Scientists from Griffith University in Australia found unusual patterns in the skeletal remains of early human foragers, which they linked to the sucking of betel nuts.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The researchers identified this pattern as a new bioarchaeological marker linked to a previously unrecognized behavior: repeatedly sucking whole betel nuts.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Jack inhaled deeply just as May dropped her hand, leaving him sucking air loudly through his nose.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley


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