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He has neither a carrot nor a stick to influence matters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
“They have these long skirts. And when they run they stick their tail in the air and when they jump — oh, my gosh — they can easily jump a four-foot fence,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The paper quotes the new energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, who said that the government "would not stick rigidly to the pledge made by her predecessor".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
In both cases, we can’t be sure he won’t stick around.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 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
"Wasn't it a real rebel, heathen man," cried Prudy, "to put the trap where Pincher sticked his foot in it?"
From Captain Horace by May, Sophie
"It looks like a tiny snake all sticked through the hole in the spool," said Prudy, eager with curiosity.
From Little Prudy's Sister Susy by May, Sophie
“The valuer man, Mr. Bambridge, must be seen, an’ bills printed out an’ sticked ’pon barn doors an’ such-like, same as when Mrs. Lezzard died,” said Phoebe.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
The education secretary has legal powers to direct schools to comply if they are not sticking to the new rules.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Workers regularly collect the trapped mosquitoes and, after sticking them in a fridge for a while to knock them out, sort them by species and count them.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The terms of the settlement had become a sticking point for Cornyn and Tillis, whose support in the Senate Judiciary Committee was crucial for Blanche’s nomination to advance to the Senate floor for final confirmation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Apple under Tim Cook’s leadership has illustrated the virtues of sticking to one’s knitting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
I saw the bottom of Joanne Turner’s list, sticking out of her notebook: “Cheerful, good sport, graceful, fair to everybody.”
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
“This would mean that if AI was the bubble that some argue, then Microsoft may be stuck with data centers but not AI-specific hardware, which is the far larger cost of AI,” Moerdler wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Instead, El-Sayed is stuck trying to rebuild an intra-party coalition after the primary.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Her crippling impostor syndrome was a feature, not a bug — we were stuck there with her for at least two seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The sector is stuck in a downturn that began in 2022, when the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates and fundraising started to decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Nollie stuck by Cocky, insisting she would have answered the same way.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
