come unstuck
Example Sentences
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But many family-run businesses come unstuck because they focus on short-term moneymaking, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 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
Yet elsewhere, similar bitcoin projects to Lugano's have come unstuck.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
The good news is that last month, the Federal Reserve entered rate- cutting mode, meaning that sooner or later these great traffic jams of consumer wealth could come unstuck.
From Barron's • Oct. 8, 2025
He told about having come unstuck in time.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
