leech
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And I wanted to leech off of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
The way the leech plops onto the forest floor in the 2017 video, with very little obvious control of its landing, seems to be common among these creatures.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
They hope that their new leech devices will soon be able to play a part in the health of children and anyone else who is afraid of needles.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024
As I inched up the rope, my arms ached, my left sock squished with blood from a leech bite, and I was marinating in sweat.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
I squirm, just like the leech stuck in the grip of the tongs.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
We get a clear-eyed look at disgust, a nearly universal human response to the likes of maggots, cockroaches, ticks, leeches, slugs and lice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
In “Parasite,” Bong constructs a multilayered question over who the titular leeches are.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
They’re tipped into a chemical solution which leeches the gold out into the liquid.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
Her lips resemble two leeches puffed up from gorging on blood.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Luxury has been the death of us, our interests and our passions leeched to a dreary gray blur of programming.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
He said: "We were absolutely blown away when we saw the contents in there, as we might have expected them to have leeched out."
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024
A federal-provincial cleanup tackled Brittania Mine, which once leeched acid into creeks.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
It’s been a long road for me and Beyoncé: We’re now 20 years from the day I leeched “Bills, Bills, Bills” from Napster.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2020
It was like seeing all the color leeched out of the world bit by bit.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
By claiming to believe in demons, the vice president is leeching onto another youth trend, and probably getting a hefty boost in social media algorithms for it.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026
These folks were, in fact, the flimsy remnants of Cuomo’s actual base: high-status opportunists leeching off one of their own.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025
In the meantime, Millie told the inquiry "confusion, frustration and anxiety... was leeching into my home".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
The trick to their method: Instead of leeching with an excess of citric acid like conventional methods, they use a relatively small amount.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024
It is an antique term for physician, and also for the aquatic worm sanguisugus, used for leeching.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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