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The US's latest figures show the economy slowed in recent months, but it is still growing at fair lick.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

In making “Never Be the Same,” Thompson wanted to allow room for the “devastating moment,” a point in a song where something unexpected can happen, “that one lick where you just melt.”

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

His low-stakes collaborative album with Partynextdoor last year suggested he might just lick his wounds and blow right past it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

Already, the club’s lush greenery looks like it could use a lick of paint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

She gave her vanilla cone a lick, but barely tasted it.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

He licks, he yodels, he sleeps on a purple pillow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

It was the licks and how fast he was playing, the technical thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

He hit us with some great guitar licks while she sang with a passion borne of mutual struggle, strife, friendship and decades of love.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2024

Diligent insect medics, with brains barely as big as the punctuation in size-8 font, were spotted carefully assessing the injuries of nestmates with a few gentle licks before operating with razor-sharp jaws.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024

As I lie on the side of the road, the dog licks my face, and I mumble, “If you like me that much, you could have just sat and waited for me.”

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Ending work with his label and group, the rapper left for Europe where he made wine, licked his wounds and worked on music in isolation.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

Capybaras’ internet fame traces back at least to 2007, when Caplin Rous, a 6-week-old capybara, licked a camera.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

The pumpkin rice and peas, seasoned with thyme, from Dominica was a good complement to the Trinidadian curry shrimp, whose pot was licked clean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

As the flames of the Palisades fire licked at his home, Ricardo Kawamura stood in his front yard watching smoke pour out of a second-story window.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Many times he’d licked his mother’s muzzle to ask her please to sick up some food for him to eat, but she didn’t stir.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

And, notably, they eat Cane’s, whether it’s buying entire orders of just Texas toast or dunking their entire hand into a fountain cup of Cane’s Sauce and licking it off their fingers.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

A French teen facing criminal charges in Singapore for a straw licking stunt was granted permission on Wednesday to leave the country for three weeks on pledges to return.

From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026

But instead of attacking, the smaller ants climb onto the bigger ones and begin licking and nibbling across their bodies.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 14, 2026

England will be licking their lips at the opportunity to bounce back against Ireland on Saturday.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

The skunk was yawning and licking his lips with the world’s tiniest, pinkest tongue.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold