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For years, movie ticket sales have been declining, because of this shift from seeing the consumer not as a customer to please, but a mark to suck dry.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Thompson suspects that some applications may sit open or ask scores of questions to suck up data and gather business ideas for free — and she’s not alone.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

It has been designed by evil robots to rob wonder and suck the soul out of a beautiful game based on constant flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

"When I was younger... budget-wise I had no choice but to camp, I had to suck it up in the rain," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

“You know I kind of suck at batting,” Toby said, shrugging like it was not a big deal.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

“People have basically become resigned to the fact that healthcare sucks, it’s going to get more expensive, access will get worse.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The number of social-media groups and threads predicated on the opinion that Bowlero/Lucky Strike absolutely sucks testifies to the number of both serious bowlers and casual enthusiasts who see the corporation as an invasive rot.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

It sucks now because I’m like, “That’s all they know me for. Not ‘Crash,’ not ‘World Trade Center,’ not all the movies that were nominated, this and that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

It sucks, and it also sucks to be a part of as a player.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Tomás sucks his thumb and gives me dagger looks in agreement.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

The offer of credit, with few conditions attached, has also sucked in workers from the gig economy, with the platforms for which they work sometimes acting as their lenders.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

What happens here, mechanically speaking, is that liquidity is sucked out of the financial system and diverted to the real economy, in Howell’s words.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Broken engine fragments smashed a cabin window of a Ryanair plane last month causing a man's head and right shoulder to be sucked into the hole, US investigators have said.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

It was also the size of a school bus, had more than 17,000 vacuum tubes and sucked up 150 kilowatts of electricity an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Just off its east coast, deep beneath the seafloor, giant chunks of Earth’s lithosphere and crust are being sucked beneath the country in a process called subduction.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

This is what happens when the nerds jump in: technology taking ownership of the call, but also technology sucking the joy out of a human moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The half-submerged mammoth sculpture in the museum’s iconic outdoor Lake Pit gives the common but inaccurate impression that the tar worked like quicksand, sucking its victims fatally downward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

These costs have been catching employers off guard, especially with the increased use of agentic AI sucking up tokens.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026

This statue yassifies Trump, sucking out his buccal fat, virilizing his features, carefully excising all of the dainty feyness that, whether he likes it or not, is crucial to capturing the unique Trump disposition.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

Thus Savery’s engine sucked and blew, just like a bellows, but the sucking was caused by condensing steam and the blowing was caused by expanding steam.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton