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Recent Examples of retch
The Captain’s Dinner scene in the 2022 film Triangle of Sadness, with its opera of vomit, is satire in a long-standing tradition, going back to the retching sequence on the boat in Céline’s Mort à crédit, and before that to Rabelais.
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Aaron Matz,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
Even the sound of the breaking chips made June retch.
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Literary Hub,
20 Mar. 2026
As Newcastle prepared to kick-off towards the Gallowgate End, Ramsey began retching.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
Vomiting and retching can occur up to five times an hour.
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Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
4 Dec. 2025
The preview shows other amateur survivalists taking part in an ice cold plunge, some less than appetizing wilderness meals, and classic reality TV retching, while also managing a full blown… BEAR ALERT!
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Nov. 2025
The patient is actually a training dummy that instructors can manipulate into yelling, moaning, retching, suffering blood pressure spikes, heart attacks and other medical emergencies.
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Beth Warren,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
Aaron Matz,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
Even the sound of the breaking chips made June retch.
—
Literary Hub,
20 Mar. 2026
As Newcastle prepared to kick-off towards the Gallowgate End, Ramsey began retching.
—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
Vomiting and retching can occur up to five times an hour.
—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
4 Dec. 2025
The preview shows other amateur survivalists taking part in an ice cold plunge, some less than appetizing wilderness meals, and classic reality TV retching, while also managing a full blown… BEAR ALERT!
—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Nov. 2025
The patient is actually a training dummy that instructors can manipulate into yelling, moaning, retching, suffering blood pressure spikes, heart attacks and other medical emergencies.
—
Beth Warren,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retch
vomit
Verb
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And Sydney vomiting out the news of Carmy’s departure is definitely something.
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Stephanie Franklin, the mother of a close friend of Benning, took multiple photos of the apartment while wearing gloves and removed a bed comforter that Benning had vomited on.
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“Retch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retch. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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