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
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
Meanwhile, executives realize that if they don’t persuade their employees to come back now, with pandemic restrictions eased in most areas, the new norms of flexible work will be hard to unstick.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
The two Guardians holding JP and Alex wave their hands, and Alex’s and JP’s mouths unstick.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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He unsticks the phone from his ear and stretches it out to me.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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Good luck with this bureaucracy of becoming unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
Its plan to increase its manufacturing capacity could come unstuck if the market grows less than expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
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 say, my mouth newly unstuck from peanut butter cement.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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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
Hastily straightening his glasses and unsticking his cheek from the glass, he pressed his nose against the window instead and squinted down at the pavement.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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