leech
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And I wanted to leech off of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Rory turns into sandworm fodder the second he admits his slimy MO, suggesting that the smarmy leech was beyond redemption.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2024
Medics there aided soldiers who not only had mortar and bullet wounds but also jungle rot and fungal infections and leech bites, all inflicted by the swamps.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2024
It works according to the leech principle and is less invasive than taking blood from the arm with a needle.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024
She hands me a cup of spicy cayenne tea and another sliver of chocolate, and adds a leech to each wrist.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
And don’t be surprised if they decide to bring back blood-letting and leeches.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
At age 25, Birutė Galdikas, the Canadian anthropologist, was wading through swamps riddled with parasites and leeches trying to catch a glimpse of orangutans, or, as she describes them, “survivors of Eden.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
They’re tipped into a chemical solution which leeches the gold out into the liquid.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
Mud oozes between my toes, and I visualize a million leeches crawling up my legs and digging their suckers into my skin.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Luxury has been the death of us, our interests and our passions leeched to a dreary gray blur of programming.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
He said: "We were absolutely blown away when we saw the contents in there, as we might have expected them to have leeched out."
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024
A federal-provincial cleanup tackled Brittania Mine, which once leeched acid into creeks.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
The waste might also be leeched into the soil, or into harder sediment, or, worst case, might have made its way into the groundwater.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2022
This, however, was something else entirely, and Ophie shivered as the cold stone leeched the warmth from her toes through the thin material of her house shoes.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
By claiming to believe in demons, the vice president is leeching onto another youth trend, and probably getting a hefty boost in social media algorithms for it.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026
These folks were, in fact, the flimsy remnants of Cuomo’s actual base: high-status opportunists leeching off one of their own.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025
In the meantime, Millie told the inquiry "confusion, frustration and anxiety... was leeching into my home".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
The trick to their method: Instead of leeching with an excess of citric acid like conventional methods, they use a relatively small amount.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024
Papito doesn’t exactly congratulate me on my success, but at least he no longer com- plains that I’m leeching off them.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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