stickiness

Example Sentences

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Molecular glue is a technology that promotes the stickiness of disease-causing proteins, allowing them to be degraded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 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

“It’s really starting to look like it could be, there could be some stickiness out there,” she says.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

Potential stumbling blocks include the release of heaps of economic data delayed by the government shutdown, which could point to further weakness in the labor market or reinforce the stickiness of inflation.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025

Preschoolers are so sophisticated in their viewing behavior that you can determine the stickiness of children’s programming by simple observation.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell