gum
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One parent said her son worked better when he was chewing gum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Sorbitol is commonly added to "low-calorie" candy and chewing gum, but it also occurs naturally in stone fruits.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
"Getting rid of chewing gum, getting rid of grotty looking bins, getting rid of graffiti, the things that are unsightly that none of us want to see," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Curry pressed a bewitching soulfulness through all those layers of spirit gum and latex.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
I felt better after she gave me a stick of gum to chew.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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
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
That gummed up financing and logistics for Arctic LNG 2 and stopped South Korean shipbuilders from delivering to the project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
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
She wasn’t even listening, with her face all gummed up with paint and her eyes hard as a fice dog’s.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Mars chose spirulina—the high-protein ingredient often touted as a superfood—as a blue substitute, but it’s been gumming up the U.S. factories that produce 600 million M&M’s each day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
"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
But for a few hours a day, the 4-month-old pygmy hippo springs to life, gumming on leaves, zooming around the compound and tossing her head in a silent, open-mouthed roar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
I keep going, one foot in front of the other, tears gumming up the back of my throat, until I feel I’m far enough away that they won’t find me.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
