gum
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He also recommends travelers bring motion-sickness patches or chew on gum, which can mitigate some of the issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Researchers have developed a bioengineered chewing gum that may offer a new way to target microbes associated with head and neck cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
It has the same ingredients — from beef to xanthan gum — but of course the inputs, such as property rates and labor costs, vary widely from country to country.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
A turkey sandwich and a pack of mint gum appeared to be the more prudent option.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Very quietly Sam reached up and took a bright red giant-sized package of Dentyne gum.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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
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
They don’t want to be picking time-consuming fights with the Lords, or creating laws that could be gummed up with hundreds of possible amendments – helpful tweaks - from their lordships.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
The sap must have gummed up the works, because a deafening crack echoed down the mountainside.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
In practice, it is gumming up urgent upgrades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
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
A never-ending stream of glowing sludge forced itself into the engines, whirling around the propellers, gumming them up, slowing them down, bringing them closer to the breaking point.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
