unstick
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"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
Within days of my injury, I could unstick my tongue from the roof of my mouth and create an odd sound every now and then, but I couldn’t communicate in any traditional sense.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2023
“She was stuck and needed a lawyer to unstick the situation,” Hruska said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
We can unstick little stuff, with some effort, but our stuff stays unstuck.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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
United had come unstuck once again - but this was business as usual for Chelsea.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 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
I stepped forward, my sneakers making that weird sound you hear when something comes unstuck.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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
The door shimmered when they pulled together, a vibration that traveled all the way up their arms, then it opened so suddenly with an unsticking feel—like tearing loose a strip of silent Velcro.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
