unstick
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The agreement could help unstick energy flows through Hormuz and ease pressure on the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
"We - our team and the United States administration - came to Beijing in order to unstick what has been stuck since almost last August," Kerry told reporters late on Wednesday.
From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2023
Roy runs into Phoebe’s teacher — yay, Phoebe, genuinely and always — and she says he seemed “stuck” the last time they spoke, which evidently serves to immediately unstick him.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
Since industrialization — and World War II was the apotheosis of an industrial-age war — it would seem that technology has conspired to accelerate our lives and so unstick us in time.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
Before I could unstick my throat, she stopped in front of me and pulled open the door to the art building.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
He unsticks the phone from his ear and stretches it out to me.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
In a note published Friday, they admitted their rationale for forecasting a weaker dollar has come unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Good luck with this bureaucracy of becoming unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
United had come unstuck once again - but this was business as usual for Chelsea.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
But many family-run businesses come unstuck because they focus on short-term moneymaking, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
We can unstick little stuff, with some effort, but our stuff stays unstuck.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
By curling and uncurling their toes, geckos can alternate between sticking and unsticking from a surface, and thus easily move across it.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
As we look toward unsticking calcified systems, we may find hope from a practice rarely celebrated by technological innovators: regulation.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
But unsticking systems is not just a technological challenge.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
Thankfully, there are ways to manage this; unsticking that clog and getting everything flowing freely again.
From Forbes ● Sep. 6, 2014
Hastily straightening his glasses and unsticking his cheek from the glass, he pressed his nose against the window instead and squinted down at the pavement.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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