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Recent Examples of sucked
This new trailer gives a sense of the franchise's history, opening with footage of the young Kevin Flynn playing the 1982 version of TRON at his arcade before being sucked into the game world's grid.
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ArsTechnica, 11 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
Eugene Domingo stars as Mauricia, a disrespected restaurant worker who, while watching soap operas one night, gets sucked through her TV screen into a training academy for villains.
—PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
While flying a shuttlecraft, she gets sucked into a wormhole and crashes onto a barren moon.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
These young men were sucked into the manosphere.
—Priya Kaur, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
ArsTechnica, 11 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
Eugene Domingo stars as Mauricia, a disrespected restaurant worker who, while watching soap operas one night, gets sucked through her TV screen into a training academy for villains.
—PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
While flying a shuttlecraft, she gets sucked into a wormhole and crashes onto a barren moon.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
These young men were sucked into the manosphere.
—Priya Kaur, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucked
smelled
Verb
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The vape smoke smelled like unicorn farts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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With no cell service, my two spoiled house pets immediately rebranded themselves as wild animals—sniffing, digging, howling at the moon, and rolling in whatever smelled the worst.—
The Editors,
Outside,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Sucked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucked. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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