leech
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And I wanted to leech off of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
The decision pays off in the film’s third act, when Matthew is exonerated in the court of the public and receives the adoration he’s been trying to leech from Oliver.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
The way the leech plops onto the forest floor in the 2017 video, with very little obvious control of its landing, seems to be common among these creatures.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 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 had never seen a leech before except in books.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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
We get a clear-eyed look at disgust, a nearly universal human response to the likes of maggots, cockroaches, ticks, leeches, slugs and lice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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
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
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
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
“Everybody who is in his orbit, if they’ve had any integrity, it gets leeched away from them like some parasite.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2020
"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
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
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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