stick at
Example Sentences
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Based on the CPI numbers, many economists expected February’s core PCE inflation to stick at 3% or 3.1%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
That evidence included DNA recovered from a stick at the scene which was 3.8 billion times more likely to have come from Singh than a random member of the public.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025
If Betts can stick at shortstop, it would free Tommy Edman to play more center field.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2025
“They have a real big future ahead if they stick at it,” Rossdale jokes about the Fab Four.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023
Outside the palace walls, the women of Gbadolite are squatting in their yards, boiling manioc in salvaged hubcaps, and if you asked them the meaning of Independence they’d scowl and shake a stick at you.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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