leech

And I wanted to leech off of that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

This fear makes evolutionary sense: Parasites aren't technically predators, but they can cause serious harm as they leech off of their hosts.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

She and Dr. Tessler identified the leech species in both videos as Chtonobdella fallax, a member of a larger family also found in the Seychelles, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific islands.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

They hope that their new leech devices will soon be able to play a part in the health of children and anyone else who is afraid of needles.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024

All this history seems both plausible and creditable, good reading for doctors, but there is always that other leech, the worm.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

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

Some hematophages are well-known: For example, vampire bats in the subfamily Desmodontinae helped inspire the legendary monsters that bear their name and no one can forget blood-sucking mosquitoes and leeches.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024

They’re tipped into a chemical solution which leeches the gold out into the liquid.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

“If you went into a river or a lake, you were probably going to get leeches on you,” Horan said.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

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

“We have companies in the private sector who have leeched onto the broken edges of the American education and student loan system,” said Cody Hounanian, executive director of the Student Debt Crisis Center.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

A federal-provincial cleanup tackled Brittania Mine, which once leeched acid into creeks.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

Unable to knuckle through cramps that compelled me to learn Lamaze breathing and heavy bleeding that leeched the life force out of me, I opted for a hysterectomy.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2022

"Maybe you should get leeched too. There's leeches in the Neck as big as pigs."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

A trematode has a very specific life cycle, leeching onto three hosts that include a freshwater snail, a fish and then a bird or human who ate the infected fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

Her gift, which they had never even known worked in reverse, was leeching the life out of all the plants she touched.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor