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That’s because as LIV scrambles for cash since losing its Saudi funding, it desperately needs its marquee players like Rahm to stick around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Economists at Deutsche Bank think he’ll stick to this 30,000-foot view in his speech.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The surgery involved inserting an endoscope - a thin camera on a stick - via the nose to the base of the skull.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The other is behavioral – a taste for less sweetness, formed early, seems to stick.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
They all looked the same to me, but he’d stare at one and throw it away, nod at another and stick it in his pocket.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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
‘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 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
The Dodgers have no business sticking Ohtani back on the mound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Bernstein is sticking to a $1 million bitcoin price by 2033.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Her successors have tried to rebuild investors’ trust by sticking to strict budgeting rules, but investors remain anxious about the U.K.’s debt path.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
And for now, it advises sticking to a single plug-in device per household.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Fairies don’t have tails,” Jack said, pointing at the fairy in May’s hair, whose behind was sticking straight up into the air as she snored.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Finn pointed to instances of autonomous vehicles blocking first responders and a blackout in San Francisco last year that caused Waymo taxis to stall and get stuck in the road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Almost all the Brits I spoke to had stuck to the same route known as the Golden Route: Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, often with day trips to nearby destinations like Nara, Hiroshima and Mount Fuji.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Yet job openings have since flatlined and remain stuck at low levels.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Sivaranjani Muthunathan was travelling by bus with 56 others towards the Chinese border when they became stuck in what they thought was a traffic jam.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
She had stuck around while E’s aunties and mom and family friends dressed her in her Osage clothes.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
