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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something that requires an inordinate amount of time and is usually unproductive or unsuccessful.
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Examples
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We record quickly by today's standards in an effort to stay in the moment and exactly capture the human event that's taking place right then and there, and not get too caught up in the trappings of modern audio recording time-suck.
Mike Ragogna: What's It All About: Chatting with Pat Metheny, Jonathan Elias, and Viva Voce Mike Ragogna 2011
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We record quickly by today's standards in an effort to stay in the moment and exactly capture the human event that's taking place right then and there, and not get too caught up in the trappings of modern audio recording time-suck.
Mike Ragogna: What's It All About: Chatting with Pat Metheny, Jonathan Elias, and Viva Voce Mike Ragogna 2011
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We record quickly by today's standards in an effort to stay in the moment and exactly capture the human event that's taking place right then and there, and not get too caught up in the trappings of modern audio recording time-suck.
Mike Ragogna: What's It All About: Chatting with Pat Metheny, Jonathan Elias, and Viva Voce Mike Ragogna 2011
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This is the best time-suck EVER in the history of EVER.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG 2010
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We record quickly by today's standards in an effort to stay in the moment and exactly capture the human event that's taking place right then and there, and not get too caught up in the trappings of modern audio recording time-suck.
Mike Ragogna: What's It All About: Chatting with Pat Metheny, Jonathan Elias, and Viva Voce Mike Ragogna 2011
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We record quickly by today's standards in an effort to stay in the moment and exactly capture the human event that's taking place right then and there, and not get too caught up in the trappings of modern audio recording time-suck.
Mike Ragogna: What's It All About: Chatting with Pat Metheny, Jonathan Elias, and Viva Voce Mike Ragogna 2011
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Ironic that my single-biggest time-suck is Lifehacker, and you're helping me browse less.
MinutesPlease Boosts Your Browsing Self-Control | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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When the cleanse is done, learn to avoid the time-suck of letting one Internet search lead to another and another.
Your BlackBerry or Your Wife Elizabeth Bernstein 2011
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We record quickly by today's standards in an effort to stay in the moment and exactly capture the human event that's taking place right then and there, and not get too caught up in the trappings of modern audio recording time-suck.
Mike Ragogna: What's It All About: Chatting with Pat Metheny, Jonathan Elias, and Viva Voce Mike Ragogna 2011
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It's a pleasant little time-suck for individual consumers who can see whether they're above or below average in their expenditures; merchants might find it useful as a market-research tool.
Faster Forward: Mint Data offers an interesting, iffy peek at spending Rob Pegoraro 2010
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