gooey
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Or maybe you’ve experienced the unique frustration of peeling off a price tag and ending up with a stubborn gooey patch?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
The latest trade statistics show Japan's exports of the highly nutritious gooey beans tripled from 2017 to 5,248 tonnes in 2025, with China and the United States topping the list of destinations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Cronin’s previous outing was “Evil Dead Rise,” a sequel heavily devoted to the gooey game plan mapped out by Fede Alvarez’s 2013 rethink of Sam Raimi’s gross-out comedies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
The author also tackles tartiflette, a gooey mixture of Reblochon cheese, potatoes, onions and lardons from the Savoie region that’s the food of protests in the 10th, loved by demonstrators and police alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
“Well, it doesn’t pour out like water. It’s more gooey, like sunblock, so you’ve really gotta squeeze,” Shelly said, demonstrating on a capped container.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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Other changes to McDonald’s burgers included softer buns and gooier cheese, the company said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
The more cheese you add, the denser and gooier your mac and cheese will be.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021
The musical ends on a gooier note, as the couple takes in a glistening sunrise.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2017
Taking seats on a table under a linden tree, we ordered crepes, made with nutty buckwheat flour, as well as the slightly gooier local equivalent, called palacinky, cooked from plain wheat flour.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2011
Oil turned the bone-black upon him into a thick, sticky goo which instantly gathered more bone-black to become thicker, stickier, and gooier.
From The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Leinster, Murray
Each day, I walk to Belize Chocolate Company and get the gooiest brownie I’ve ever eaten.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2016
It is pine tar, the gooiest, stickiest, filthiest stuff you ever touched.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2014