stickiness
Example Sentences
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Perhaps best of all: The movie has a gritty, charming meanness to it; a stickiness that’s hard to shake off.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Extreme heat is set to roll into Southern California, extending a summer of misery-making stickiness and hot temperatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
After Silicon Valley Bank failed in March 2023, not long before first-quarter earnings season began, investors were suddenly clamoring for timely information about the stickiness of lenders’ deposits and the market values of their bondholdings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Lawrence Newman, chief executive of Beauty Tech Group, pointed to the city's five universities and "the stickiness of people wanting to live here post-university".
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
The information age has created a stickiness problem.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
