leech

And I wanted to leech off of that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

The decision pays off in the film’s third act, when Matthew is exonerated in the court of the public and receives the adoration he’s been trying to leech from Oliver.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025

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

Ned had known their faces as well as he knew his own once, but the years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

They set out again the next day, battling leeches and surviving on instant noodles, hiking through the mountains without any luck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

And don’t be surprised if they decide to bring back blood-letting and leeches.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

They’re tipped into a chemical solution which leeches the gold out into the liquid.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and paddy algae and various rots and molds.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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

But multiple pharmacy owners told The Oregonian/OregonLive that an even larger challenge is the big share of profits leeched off by the pharmacy benefit managers.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 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

The waste might also be leeched into the soil, or into harder sediment, or, worst case, might have made its way into the groundwater.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2022

He hadn’t intended for us to wither into desiccated husks in front of brightly lit screens that leeched away our summer days one meme at a time.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

A trematode has a very specific life cycle, leeching onto three hosts that include a freshwater snail, a fish and then a bird or human who ate the infected fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

Papito doesn’t exactly congratulate me on my success, but at least he no longer com- plains that I’m leeching off them.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau