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
After Dr. Fahmy shared her first springing leech video with other people, most recognized the jump immediately.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
As I inched up the rope, my arms ached, my left sock squished with blood from a leech bite, and I was marinating in sweat.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
Tansy tried to put Little Britches down, but she clung like a leech.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
They set out again the next day, battling leeches and surviving on instant noodles, hiking through the mountains without any luck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
In “Parasite,” Bong constructs a multilayered question over who the titular leeches are.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
They’re tipped into a chemical solution which leeches the gold out into the liquid.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
She tried to forget that there were probably leeches on her legs at that very moment.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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 massive environmental disaster has sent social media into a tailspin for days, following a train derailment in Ohio that leeched toxic chemicals into the ground, water and air.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2023
A federal-provincial cleanup tackled Brittania Mine, which once leeched acid into creeks.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
It’s been a long road for me and Beyoncé: We’re now 20 years from the day I leeched “Bills, Bills, Bills” from Napster.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2020
He made sure to cycle steerers in and out, changing the faces so Pekka’s barkers and bouncers never got wise, and customer by customer, he leeched away the Emerald’s business.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
It is an antique term for physician, and also for the aquatic worm sanguisugus, used for leeching.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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