gum
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In the process, Wilson meets other eccentric characters that share his passion of filmmaking but have their own interests, like clearing gum from a sidewalk, immortalizing a person’s tattoo after they’re dead, and music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
More than two billion cups of coffee are drunk each day and that's before we start talking about cola, energy drinks, plus some chocolate, chewing gum and sports supplements, which also contain the chemical.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Curry pressed a bewitching soulfulness through all those layers of spirit gum and latex.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
When the visitors discovered that Avi didn’t know how to blow bubbles with gum or play baseball, they taught him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Another time, Isabella and Julia were two parts of a table, and I was the gum stuck underneath them.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
But product development at larger companies is slow and rigid, often getting gummed up in corporate bureaucracy, Brasher said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
That gummed up financing and logistics for Arctic LNG 2 and stopped South Korean shipbuilders from delivering to the project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
It was bitterly cold outside; the hairs inside my nose gummed and froze.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Should the Dolphins ultimately move on from Tagovailoa after the season, they’d be confronted with the twin demands of needing to find a replacement—and attempting to do so while Tagovailoa is gumming up the books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 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
He said things were "gumming up" as each individual passport had to be inspected and stamped post-Brexit.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2023
Harvey sat at another, gumming away at his food.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
