- present tense form of suck (3rd person singular).
sucks
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Clement Delangue, CEO of AI platform Hugging Face, which is owned by Nvidia, called it "a really sad day," saying: "This whole thing sucks, and I wish none of it had happened."
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
No man, and that kind of sucks because like, what’s next, bro?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
He was something exciting and fresh when he pantsed the pop culture landscape in the late 1990s, but joking about how much everything sucks is a young man’s game.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
“It kind of sucks to leave a student who’s obviously still confused with stuff, but you’ve hit your five-minute limit and there’s a hundred other students” waiting.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Kimberly sucks in her breath when he starts to speak.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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