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There's a bone-white lobster, suctioned up for examination at the surface, and a horned sea cucumber whose mast-like spikes collapse into black spaghetti when it arrives on the ship.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

Captured microplastics collect at the filter outlet and are suctioned away several times per minute.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025

They will silently show you how it’s done with an impossibly balletic ollie, their board magically suctioned to their soles as they slide down the whole length of the thing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 21, 2025

“I thought the house would be torn open and we’d get suctioned up,” Ms. Swearingen, 35, said.

From New York Times • May 27, 2024

Other globs of verbal fat include the metaconcepts we suctioned out in chapter 2, including matter, view, subject, process, basis, factor, level, and model.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker