suck
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He continues by "mewing," a TikTok trend where people suck in their cheeks and point a finger at their jawline to emphasize their chiseled features.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
"We create, basically, a tornado – a violent vortex inside the tunnel," says Helming, as he explains how this helps the machine to suck away debris, which at times takes the form of lava.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Doesn’t it always suck to get around an airport, no matter what vehicle you’re on?
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The second is that bubbles suck in investor capital and lead it to be misallocated, slowing the growth of the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
I even had the urge to suck my thumb.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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In nearly a decade I have never had a student say: You know what really sucks?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
"It kind of sucks and I do get a little salty seeing all this extra AI money squeeze everyone else out."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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
When the relationships fizzle, when the job sucks, when things don’t work out the way you plan, you know they’re always there for you.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
I should be glad that his life sucks, maybe worse than mine, even though he’s a prince of Faerie and a horrible jerk and probably going to live forever.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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A month before the documentary premiered on Netflix, a passenger was partially sucked through a broken window on a 737-800 Boeing plane when the cabin lost pressure after the plane took off from Thessaloniki, Greece.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
Divers’ primary tool was a vacuum-like system called a dredge, which sucked up sediment from inside the wreck and deposited it into baskets on the sea floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
This past summer my entire family had been sucked into a black hole with no hope of escape.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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The war has also continued to spread, sucking in and reigniting Yemen's smouldering civil war.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Late that night, the Interior Department announced the pool was “crystal clear” and said workers were sucking up the dead algae.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
“Oh, no doubt, my dear, most definitely,” she said, adjusting her flowered bonnet and sucking at her teeth.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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