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gum

[guhm] / gʌm /


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The research team now plans to conduct a larger study involving athletes to further examine how sugary chewing gum affects nitrate metabolism, blood pressure, and exercise performance.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

But they bought more chewing gum, mouthwash and hair dyes - products that counter common GLP-1 side effects like thinning hair and bad breath.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

El-Obeid hosts an infantry division, an air base, a key oil pipeline and a major tree gum market.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

“Please stop putting gum on the fitting rooms. Sincerely, all brandy melville employees,” read one TikTok from last year with more than 700,000 views, showing a staff member pulling the gummy remains off with tissues.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Or else no one would admit they had, not with Imogene sitting there blowing this huge bubble of gum out and in and out and in, ready to park it on anyone who looked guilty.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

Crews could not “get anything into the compromised tank because, the theory is, the product was starting to solidify and it gummed up the dump valves,” McGovern said.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

That gummed up credit markets, tanked the value of money-market funds, and sent global stock markets into a tailspin.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

It also could take a long time for Saudi Arabia to actually take possession of the jets and the process could get gummed up in Congress or derailed by other developments.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 19, 2025

In a memo to employees, Fiddelke said he was trying to clear up “complexity” that gummed up decision-making and made it harder to deliver on ideas, according to the Journal.

From MarketWatch Oct. 26, 2025

She wasn’t even listening, with her face all gummed up with paint and her eyes hard as a fice dog’s.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

That is gumming up private-equity’s tried-and-true formula of raising money from investors to buy companies, then flipping them for a profit a few years later.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 28, 2025

And despite the claims that she’s gumming up the state’s process with her appeals, Gilbert has never actually reversed a council decision.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2025

Because of its eagerness to enter into chemical reactions, "sulfur compounds tend to be more unstable, posing hazards to lab personnel and equipment, clogging up instrumentation and gumming up experiments."

From Science Daily Mar. 13, 2024

Or what if they did manage to hammer out some compromises, only for a handful of unhappy people or groups to take them to court, gumming up the works?

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2023

Even Granny stopped gumming her tobacco and looked interested.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer




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