letch

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Recent Examples of letch Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges. Terrance Hayes, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019 Men who preyed on younger women were called letches, cradle-robbers, dogs. Jill Ciment, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 Was White going to break down and admit he’s a letch? David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for letch
Noun
  • Resist the urge to jump straight into a pitch, start by actually engaging with your network.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The topic is first raised in Thursday’s episode by Tommy, who bumps into Buck at a bar and admits that he’s been resisting the urge to call him for weeks.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The desire just to make the playoffs actually delayed a long overdue rebuild.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Sweeney has often expressed a desire to keep her personal and romantic life out of the public eye as her star status has grown in recent years.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Your body may also use carbs more efficiently earlier in the day—which can help reduce cravings and promote better weight control.
    Lauren O'Connor, MS, Health, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Medications that reduce opioid cravings, including buprenorphine and methadone, are more widely available, in part because of insurance coverage provided by Medicaid.
    Brian Mann, NPR, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Their brows are furrowed, their mouths are pouty, their faces are twisted into ever-more over-the-top expressions of longing and ambivalence.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
  • But looking back, many feel a longing for the God of War of old.
    Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Kicking has turned into his new passion over the last few years.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Our Pause for Purpose curriculum is one example of an intentional step toward making a career change or pivot with passion and purpose.
    Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The track finds Rocky taking a lyrical jab at former affiliates of his crew, attributing their conduct to their own thirst for success and fame.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Wayne took out an ad of his own, distancing himself as much as possible from Wills' thirst.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Her own relationship to religion forced her to contend with an inclination toward stifling (or at least judging) normal feelings of yearning and lust.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Then again, lust in music, art and literature is one of Vienna’s great gifts to the world.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Millions of children across the globe will suffer from hunger and disease because Trump would rather see tons of food from American farmers rot on the docks than shipped to where they are desperately needed.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The New York Times visited five new data center campuses in California, Utah, Texas and Oklahoma and spoke with more than 50 executives, engineers, entrepreneurs and electricians to tell the story of the tech industry’s insatiable hunger for this new kind of computing.
    Cade Metz, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2025

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“Letch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/letch. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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