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McLoughlin, who fondly remembers PlayStation cases on a bedroom shelf and getting new games for Christmas, says "it would suck to see physical games disappear completely".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
“So many people feel that aging is some grim reality, we have to just suck it up,” he said, “but you can have an enormous impact on these things.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I knew who they were; I’d heard the single on WNYU, maybe for once the opening band wouldn’t suck.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
A proposed Roomba-like device to suck ticks out of the grass probably does not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Yeah, well, what you were doing is, too. So suck it up. And stop calling me that.”
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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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
"It's really hard, but I know if you are going through something you can get through it too. It sucks."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“It does suck. But, it sucks a lot less than other options,” the caption from Compliant Technologies reads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Right now it sucks to be me—but until now, it never occurred to me that it also sucks to be them.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Because of the tough economic times and because of the new products like buy-now-pay-later deals that are just sweeping the market, young people are being sucked into more credit-card debt than ever before.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Fixating on my fishing rod, I had allowed the idling machine to bottom out in the shell spoil, some of which got sucked into the intake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
So much gas was released that some was sucked back into the engine rooms through ventilation shafts, triggering gas detector alarms.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“We get really sucked into the idea of looking up to someone and wanting to be just like them, and that’s not right,” she said.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
“We don't play with the dead.'' He sucked his teeth. “Bringing a soul out of the Underworld has consequences—and I'm telling you she's not there anymore.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The process, guided by the app, is relatively straightforward: fill the test with saliva by sucking on it for 60 seconds, wait 20 minutes, scan the test, get results.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
It is also sucking money away from government bonds toward the AI labs developing new models and “hyperscalers” building out data centers, adding further upward pressure on government bond yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Both of the hunter-gatherers showed an unusual dental wear pattern with deep, rounded tooth grooves, which the researchers found was caused by sucking whole betel nuts.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Together, the chemical evidence and distinctive tooth damage suggest that hunter-gatherers in Sulawesi practiced habitual betel nut sucking over long periods, leaving striking physical changes in their teeth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
My dad’s always treated me like I was just another thing sucking his hard-earned money out of his pocket; now, I’m also the degenerate who cost him an interview.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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