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Nearby is one of the movie’s crudely constructed stick figures — a reminder that sometimes a few twigs and some twine are all it takes to lodge an image permanently in the culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
This points to yet another reason why the richest Americans should stick to index funds: There is an extremely high correlation between the S&P 500’s annual returns and the yearly increases in their combined wealth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Economists say that with mortgages above 7%, more potential buyers are likely to stick to the sidelines, dragging down a housing market that is in its fourth year of stagnant sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Those are the sort of performances that stick in supporters' minds and help explain why the theory has taken hold.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
It was a struggle to set the trap: to prop up a flat rock on a stick, then slot in another stick crossways to act as a trigger.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
At the other end of the ice, Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy made four saves and sticked away the puck from a danger area with the Canadiens buzzing.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
Coyotes winger Jordan Szwarz high sticked Schmidt to give Washington its next go-round on the power play.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2013
The flower-stems to be properly sticked, so as to keep them in due bounds, and also to assist in presenting a large mass of flowers to the eye at once.
From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by William Keane
‘There’s a middlin’ big log sticked in the dirt at Rabbit Shaw, and’—he flicked his whip back along the line—’so they’ve sent for us all.’
From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
His unfortunate lady, who sticked hersel for love wi' a drawn sword, and was afterwards seen as a ghost, dim-beckoning through the shade—a verra poetical thocht surely, and full both of terror and pity….
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
The event, which will be broadcast on Netflix, was confirmed as a collaboration between Saudi boxing powerbroker Turki Alalshikh's The Ring and UFC president Dana White, but this appears to be the sticking point.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“There’s just weird stuff sticking out,” said bodysurfer Rick Piani, 58.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
I’ve been sticking with a weight training routine for a couple of years now, but I try to evolve the exercises all the time because I get bored really easily.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
He predicted AI safety coalescing with concerns around the data-center build-out, which is becoming a key sticking point for voters.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Jeff sitting facing away from us, his legs sticking out between the second and third rows.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
“I feel like sometimes I’m stuck in a Gen X body, because I invest pretty similarly to a lot of my clients,” Shin said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
"We've always just been stuck in this low number statistics regime, so this is our very best attempt to build a big enough sample to do something more useful."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
He actually uses his reservations, but you can imagine people using agents to hoard tables, or the human user not realizing the agent booked a table and the restaurant being stuck with a no-show.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Paramount, which saw its deal as pro-competition, didn’t see a need to make major changes, and the deal was stuck in limbo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Mutti stuck always to the asthma story Karli had first made up in front of the policeman that day.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
