puke
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It’s going to be a long, hot summer for getting COVID, the measles, and milk-borne puke diseases!
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2025
I was telling my caddie Austin that I felt pretty calm coming down the stretch and he said he was about to puke on the 18th tee!
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2024
Cleaning up after the birds is an awful job: “Two to 3 inches of guano, these birds puke a lot, you get your flies, maggots — it makes you gag,” McFadden said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
The scene is bookended by puke and social/professional humiliation, as the extremely Americanized Audrey struggles to keep down Thousand Year Egg shots, nevermind her guilt about being unable to adequately assimilate into Chinese culture.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2023
Just as I was about to puke, Ob spoke up.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
The puteketeke, a bird that pukes, grunts, growls and has bizarre mating rituals, won New Zealand’s bird of the century title in a competition where American-British comedian John Oliver's involvement has ruffled some local feathers.
From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2023
She aspires to be a newscaster but is so camera shy she spectacularly pukes when the red light goes on.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
“We were talking last night about how everything the baby does — even if it pukes everywhere — you say, ‘Good job!’”
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2019
You might not want to think about what happens when the passenger before you pukes in your autonomous Uber.
From Slate ● May 16, 2018
I rake a mountain into the front yard and there are still more, like the earth pukes up leaf gunk when I’m not looking.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Nobody puked during one of the slasher films, and the eccentric local we refer to as “the velvet suit guy” behaved himself, for the most part.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024
During the “free fall,” I did a very-not-me, mini fist bump to the cameraman and then nearly puked when the parachute opened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
That’s when I caught a case of severe norovirus and puked so hard that my water broke.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2022
“One dog puked up a shark toy. So if you have a dog who goes to the country for the weekend and eats horse poop, he’ll have diarrhea on Monday morning.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2021
“Yeah. Heard you puked on Lara. Very suave.”
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
Filled with terms like gamma and vol puking, market dispatches from the strategist the FT once described as a “meat-powered market mystic” do not make for easy reading.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2025
Their top red-zone target was limited, and their defensive leader, Kamari Ramsey, was up all night puking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2025
"They are weird puking birds with colourful mullets. What's not to love here?"
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2023
Oliver described pūteketeke, which number less than 1,000 in New Zealand and are also known as the Australasian crested grebe, as “weird, puking birds with colorful mullets.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
If I'm on a train at night, I can usually even read one of those dumb stories in a magazine without puking.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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