unstick
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The agreement could help unstick energy flows through Hormuz and ease pressure on the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
"We - our team and the United States administration - came to Beijing in order to unstick what has been stuck since almost last August," Kerry told reporters late on Wednesday.
From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2023
What I can't unstick from my brain is how defiant it is of simple determination.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2023
Since industrialization — and World War II was the apotheosis of an industrial-age war — it would seem that technology has conspired to accelerate our lives and so unstick us in time.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
The touch of the iron hilt seemed to unstick her feet from the floor at last, and she moved through what felt like thick mud toward the monstrous child.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
He unsticks the phone from his ear and stretches it out to me.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
In a note published Friday, they admitted their rationale for forecasting a weaker dollar has come unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Good luck with this bureaucracy of becoming unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
Aston Villa's Tyrone Mings came unstuck in a Champions League game against Club Brugge in November 2024, conceding a penalty for handball after Emiliano Martinez kicked the ball to him.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But many family-run businesses come unstuck because they focus on short-term moneymaking, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Petey, somehow unstuck and frowny as usual, said, “Oh heck. More guests, and me with no snacks. Can this day get any worse?”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
By curling and uncurling their toes, geckos can alternate between sticking and unsticking from a surface, and thus easily move across it.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
As we look toward unsticking calcified systems, we may find hope from a practice rarely celebrated by technological innovators: regulation.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
But unsticking systems is not just a technological challenge.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
Thankfully, there are ways to manage this; unsticking that clog and getting everything flowing freely again.
From Forbes ● Sep. 6, 2014
"You must go with them," Rémy says, unsticking my feet.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
