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As of September, candy and gum prices were up 44% over a five-year period, the Associated Press reported, citing government data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

But it could also include kombucha, seaweed snacks, muesli and chewing gum, depending on their sugar content.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Traditional ink was generally made from soot, water, and a binder such as gum Arabic.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

In the process, Wilson meets other eccentric characters that share his passion of filmmaking but have their own interests, like clearing gum from a sidewalk, immortalizing a person’s tattoo after they’re dead, and music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

My brothers and my mother were able to make some of the other preparations for me—collecting sticks and gum for the arrows, collecting the rope to bind them with.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

Crews could not “get anything into the compromised tank because, the theory is, the product was starting to solidify and it gummed up the dump valves,” McGovern said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Supply chains are also gummed up for helium, crucial for the artificial-intelligence chips boom, and fertilizers, essential for global food security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

That gummed up credit markets, tanked the value of money-market funds, and sent global stock markets into a tailspin.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

In a memo to employees, Fiddelke said he was trying to clear up “complexity” that gummed up decision-making and made it harder to deliver on ideas, according to the Journal.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2025

Instead my feet had gummed to the sidewalk as he handed her into the Ford and they drove away.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Should the Dolphins ultimately move on from Tagovailoa after the season, they’d be confronted with the twin demands of needing to find a replacement—and attempting to do so while Tagovailoa is gumming up the books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

"It's almost palpably eager to please – and if you don't welcome it right into your heart, you might want to check there's not some marmalade gumming it shut."

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025

And despite the claims that she’s gumming up the state’s process with her appeals, Gilbert has never actually reversed a council decision.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

Because of its eagerness to enter into chemical reactions, "sulfur compounds tend to be more unstable, posing hazards to lab personnel and equipment, clogging up instrumentation and gumming up experiments."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

Harvey sat at another, gumming away at his food.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer