unstick
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“It can unstick you, and you think, ‘OK, that was rubbish,’ or ‘Mine are loads better than yours,'” he said.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 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
Within days of my injury, I could unstick my tongue from the roof of my mouth and create an odd sound every now and then, but I couldn’t communicate in any traditional sense.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2023
“We basically have to cause a nuisance until it hurts,” he said as a police officer tried to unstick him from the road with the help of cooking oil.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Since me and Sheed were able to unstick it when we worked together, size can’t be the reason we couldn’t unstick Grandma.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
He unsticks the phone from his ear and stretches it out to me.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
He insisted not after his fourth-round win over Jesper de Jong, but if he comes unstuck against the next generation, there is no question he has blown a golden chance.
From BBC ● May 31, 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
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
But they came unstuck in the freezing conditions at the stadium 200km north of the Arctic Circle, losing 3-1.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
“I can’t help other people get unstuck because I was never stuck.”
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
"You must go with them," Rémy says, unsticking my feet.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
