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
Olanna was sitting on Mohammed’s veranda, drinking chilled rice milk, laughing at the delicious cold trickle down her throat, at the stickiness on her lips, when the gateman appeared and asked to speak to Mohammed.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
