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puck

[puhk] / pʌk /


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It is so gruelling that its Asia tournament in Hong Kong was billed as "physical hell", with player Leo Lines admitting that "anyone that's got the puck" is going through "some level of suffering".

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

There was no retirement ceremony, no last call for the little plastic puck.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

In my office: an Underwood No. 5 typewriter and a hockey puck in a Plexiglas case — the actual puck from the only goal I ever scored playing college hockey, in 1977.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Advanced manufacturing is where the puck is going,” Lutnick said to a room full of workers taking a class in Apple manufacturing techniques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

I could stop a puck from passing between the pipes—but I had to make it all the way to winter before anybody would care about that.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

I don’t expect restaurant owners to read this and order a fresh shipment of vibrating pucks.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The pucks are featured in an “Olympics ‘26” display that also contains a hockey stick used by Brady Tkachuk of the U.S. team and a U.S. jersey worn by four-time Olympian Hilary Knight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

Their kitchen pans were likely cast iron, gilded with bacon grease and seasoned until fried eggs slid across their surface like hockey pucks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

There are periods in any given day when my kids have the energy of pucks flying across an air hockey table.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

Kyle and Miguel slid around the life-size game like hockey pucks.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein


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