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This type of water harvesting relies on desiccant, the same stuff that’s in those little packs put into shoe boxes and new bags to suck up moisture and prevent water damage.
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Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
And the treatments suck … treatments are tough.
—Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Getting anything done is hard and takes persuading, cajoling, or even sucking up, depending on who is at the receiving end.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 6 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
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Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
And the treatments suck … treatments are tough.
—Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Getting anything done is hard and takes persuading, cajoling, or even sucking up, depending on who is at the receiving end.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 6 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suck
smell
Verb
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No one wants to use a bathroom that smells stale (or worse).—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
5 Sep. 2025
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But that did little to allay the concerns of Dermish and his neighbors, who continued to see flares light up the sky and to smell gas wafting over the community.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Suck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suck. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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