unstick
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“It can unstick you, and you think, ‘OK, that was rubbish,’ or ‘Mine are loads better than yours,'” he said.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 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
“We basically have to cause a nuisance until it hurts,” he said as a police officer tried to unstick him from the road with the help of cooking oil.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Khiel says it can even help unstick painted windows.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2022
My tongue felt like it had been glued to the roof of my mouth, and as much as I tried, it wouldn’t unstick.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
He unsticks the phone from his ear and stretches it out to me.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
While Gay's recent century came against James Anderson's Lancashire, he has previously come unstuck against Test-level bowlers.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
And it's while the attempt to constrain the pay bill that gobbles 55% of day-to-day spending is coming unstuck, two years into a three-year cap.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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
Over the last couple of years, the long-term political parallels between the U.S. and the United Kingdom seem to have come unstuck.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
He told about having come unstuck in time.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
But unsticking systems is not just a technological challenge.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
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
Thankfully, there are ways to manage this; unsticking that clog and getting everything flowing freely again.
From Forbes ● Sep. 6, 2014
“Sure thing, fellas. Any luck on unsticking everything?”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
