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Recent Examples of sucked
Prevention tactics On a recent weekday morning, a Sanimax driver pulled up to Concord Lanes and sucked out used cooking oil from a large bin on the side of the bowling alley.
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Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
In places as far-flung as Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Serbia, from antiquity to the present day, tornadoes have sucked up aquatic creatures by the bushel and carried them several miles away.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
In the case of this robotic capsule, the pressure changes cause liquid samples in the gut to be sucked into the capsule.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2025
As for the infants, those whose mothers ingested garlic attached to the breast for longer periods and sucked more when the milk smelled like garlic.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Think about the inflationary era of 2022 — prices were high and rising faster than most Americans had ever experienced, which, to borrow a technical term, sucked.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
What sucked was how it was handled.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
So Cali sucked her teeth, chuckling.
—Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Don’t take that to mean that all the fun’s been sucked out, though; far from it.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
In places as far-flung as Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Serbia, from antiquity to the present day, tornadoes have sucked up aquatic creatures by the bushel and carried them several miles away.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
In the case of this robotic capsule, the pressure changes cause liquid samples in the gut to be sucked into the capsule.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2025
As for the infants, those whose mothers ingested garlic attached to the breast for longer periods and sucked more when the milk smelled like garlic.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Think about the inflationary era of 2022 — prices were high and rising faster than most Americans had ever experienced, which, to borrow a technical term, sucked.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
What sucked was how it was handled.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
So Cali sucked her teeth, chuckling.
—Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Don’t take that to mean that all the fun’s been sucked out, though; far from it.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucked
Verb
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My grandma always slept with curlers in her hair to have perfect spirals the next day, and my mom’s jet-black hair was always long, glossy, and smelled amazing.—
Natasha López,
Refinery29,
10 Sep. 2025
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The vape smoke smelled like unicorn farts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Dolphins in their 33-8 loss in Indy stunk like Limburger cheese left in a car trunk.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Sucked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucked. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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