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Described in a new study published in Advanced Functional Materials, the device has a flexible gel framework roughly the length and width of a stick of gum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal were expecting to see the figure stick around 200,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Though Ms Nina’s “Tu Sicaria” makes its way onto the playlist some nights, his resident DJs mostly stick to the classics at their parties, and that’s intentional.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

"Hang in there, stick to the game plan, go out there and try to attack the opposition, be dangerous, be yourself and be good defensively as well," Madueke said.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

‘Something was making the drawer stick, so we pulled it and—’ ‘We?’

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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 Sophie May

“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 Eden Phillpotts

When I wus a liddle boy A-wipin' my mammy's dishes, I sticked my finger in my eye An' I shō' seed liddle fishes.

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

Matthew Stafford does not typically stray much from comments about sticking with his process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

And while profitability has been a sticking point for Super Micro investors in the past, the company signaled a better-than-expected performance on a key metric.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

RCN England's executive director Patricia Marquis said the extra money was welcome in the short term but would ultimately provide "just another sticking plaster on a system that is at breaking point".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“It’s a sticking plaster,” he says, using the English term for Band-Aid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Luckily, they didn’t notice my head sticking above the rest of the pile.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Within this disk, countless small particles gradually collided and stuck together, building larger objects through a process called accretion.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

A famed dusky shark in South Korea has returned to the canal where she had been stuck for a month, just one day after authorities said they had successfully guided her out, local media report.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

This time, however, his mom stuck around — though she did warn him that she’d give him a tap if she wanted to leave.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

The diplomatic track has been stuck for months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Glenn had stuck the puff adder in the drawer and sawed the plank to be Tansy’s hero?

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck