puke
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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
He ran flat-out for 200 yards, so full of primal terror that a fountain of puke started erupting out of his guts all over the fairway as he was running.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2023
Was the jury room drowning in rivers of puke?
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2023
Each sticky-sweet thing he said made me want to puke.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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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
She quickly passes out again when she refuses to swallow this bizarre blue glowing ball that John pukes into her mouth—it’s presumably the fake-scientific thing that transforms her into a part-fish like him.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2021
“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
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
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“I about puked when I saw number 13,” Street said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
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
Some reports indicate that he puked more than once.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
That’s when I caught a case of severe norovirus and puked so hard that my water broke.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2022
The question of whether he, Peter Jahrling, was infected with Ebola had become somewhat more pressing since the animal caretaker had puked on the lawn.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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They overlaid effects onto their selfies, transforming their faces into cute dogs and even puking rainbows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
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
"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
The crying, the puking don’t mean anything anymore.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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