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In any case, attitudes toward the S-word have changed in the last few decades, and it has lost much of its punch as a cuss word, Bergen said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Oftentimes I would talk people down from this righteous anger, then I would be like, “So don’t cuss people out you don’t know,” and then they’d be like, “Yeah, you’re right.”

From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2023

Instead I had become a public-interest lawyer, before my disease took that from me, and had allowed myself to cuss occasionally, but this was a real departure.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

“They told him not to cuss and he stopped,” a woman can be heard telling an officer in the video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022

“Yeh, so how come he tip his hat to Sula? How come he don’t cuss her?”

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

As such, we've replaced all cusses with "cusses."

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2015

On Guy Fieri: “He cusses like a chef,” Helle said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2015

Just because somebody cusses doesn’t make them a bad person and just because a guy doesn’t cuss doesn’t make him a good person.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010

I heard a lot of things, cusses and cheers, jokes and conches, horns and drums, but nothing that sounded like a distinctive phrase.

From The Guardian ● May 5, 2010

I didn’t know what most of Doug Swieteck’s brother’s cusses meant, either, and it didn’t make all that much difference.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

“He never yelled at me. Never cussed at me. Never lost his temper with me or the kids,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

It was a performance that recalled the cussed stubbornness of great England teams past.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2023

Over her refusal to comply with the school’s mandate, Smith told the paper that people have "cussed her out" and that some of her best friends "won’t talk to me."

From Fox News ● Oct. 11, 2021

But his output, like those writers’, was stranger, more cussed, and less comfortable than the avuncular stereotypes.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2020

I can’t go into a lot of details—Ms. Ofrah told me not to—but I tell her we did everything One-Fifteen asked and never once cussed at him like his father claims.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

“But that’ll die out if there’s no emotional current underneath. The cussing has context. As long as there is an emotional story underneath the bells and whistles of cussing, then that works.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

Is cussing a part of communication for Scientology believers, one officially sanctioned or dictated?

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022

“It’s a natural progression going from hockey to being a pastor because in hockey there’s a lot of cussing and fighting and it seems to be the same as a pastor,” he joked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2020

“We must always be on guard against mediocre cussing in our writing,” the novelist Katherine Dunn wrote, in a small book called “On Cussing.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019

I’m cussing myself for taking her out there in the first place.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett