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

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

Verstappen, after all, was on pole at high-speed Silverstone three weeks ago, only for his race to come unstuck in the wet as a consequence of the low-downforce set-up Red Bull chose.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

It begins like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut