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puke

[pyook] / pjuk /


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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

“Just remember if everything hurts and you want to puke, you’re doing it right,” an instructor helpfully tells him.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 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

They still puke out most of what you scoop into them.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

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

A scene or two later, the woman has come down with a sudden case of the pukes.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2019

“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

“If anyone pukes, the other squadron wins,” Bull shouted above the din.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“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

Remember when Lucius Fox puked on the field in April, perhaps sensing what was to come?

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022

That’s when I caught a case of severe norovirus and puked so hard that my water broke.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2022

He heard six kids in the class next to the bathroom couldn’t even make it to the trash can and puked all over their desks.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

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 colorful mullets. What’s not to love here?”

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2023

Uber and Lyft charge riders from $25 to $150 in cleaning fees for puking incidents, according to a driver writing on Harry Campbell’s the Rideshare Guy website.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

“If somebody is convulsing or puking in a congregate setting, it’s noticeable,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

“Go to the bathroom, and when you’ve finished puking up your guilt wait for me outside, because we still have a long way to go!”

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende


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