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coming unstuck

ADJECTIVE

broken

Synonyms

STRONGEST

busted defective faulty ruined wrecked

STRONG

dead disabled down gone out shot spent wracked

WEAK

fallen apart feeble gone to pieces haywire imperfect in disrepair in need of repair in the shop inoperable inoperative kaput not functioning on the blink on the fritz out of commission out of kilter out of order out of whack run down screwed-up unsatisfactory weak

Antonyms

STRONGEST

perfect repaired

WEAK

fixed working

Example Sentences

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And it's while the attempt to constrain the pay bill that gobbles 55% of day-to-day spending is coming unstuck, two years into a three-year cap.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

He was a toddler when prices started coming unstuck in the 1960s.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2021

She has lunch to prepare, and André seems to be coming unstuck again.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

The answer was to attach microphones to the airframe and listen to the faint sound of the adhesive coming unstuck.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2016

Some of them were coming unstuck, hanging on by just one or two points.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

coming unstuck

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