unstick
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The agreement could help unstick energy flows through Hormuz and ease pressure on the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
As Millie and Tim fall into a well-worn pattern, their literal inability to unstick themselves from something increasingly toxic becomes both hysterical and uniquely depraved.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
"We - our team and the United States administration - came to Beijing in order to unstick what has been stuck since almost last August," Kerry told reporters late on Wednesday.
From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2023
Khiel says it can even help unstick painted windows.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2022
In the mornings he stands outside the bathroom door and asks if I can bear to unstick myself from the mirror.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
He unsticks the phone from his ear and stretches it out to me.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
In a note published Friday, they admitted their rationale for forecasting a weaker dollar has come unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Good luck with this bureaucracy of becoming unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
Its plan to increase its manufacturing capacity could come unstuck if the market grows less than expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Over the last couple of years, the long-term political parallels between the U.S. and the United Kingdom seem to have come unstuck.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
He stumbled back as the door came unstuck and swung toward him.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
By curling and uncurling their toes, geckos can alternate between sticking and unsticking from a surface, and thus easily move across it.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
As we look toward unsticking calcified systems, we may find hope from a practice rarely celebrated by technological innovators: regulation.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
But unsticking systems is not just a technological challenge.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
Thankfully, there are ways to manage this; unsticking that clog and getting everything flowing freely again.
From Forbes ● Sep. 6, 2014
The door shimmered when they pulled together, a vibration that traveled all the way up their arms, then it opened so suddenly with an unsticking feel—like tearing loose a strip of silent Velcro.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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