sticky
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Their first priority was examining the instrument's 18 detectors, each roughly the size of a sticky note, along with the electronics that operate them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
How and why did the tide turn against this sticky substance?
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Dimon noted that large fiscal deficits, sticky inflation, elevated asset prices, rising interest rates and geopolitical conditions continue to shift under the surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It starts with creating a Rightsizing Project book and then putting sticky, colored dots on items throughout your home to show what will go to your new home and what won’t.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Jack quickly pulled the rest of the strangely sticky ropes off himself, then threw his legs over the side of the table, noticing for the first time why his feet had been so warm.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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This is also a good time to break out those port-style stickies you picked up on your visits to local wineries.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
Transfers like this should be simple, but this fat document with little stickies pointing to places that required details and signatures was proof it wasn’t.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2021
The track-prepared M40i’s were equipped with the optional electromechanically locking rear differential and shod with 20-inch summer stickies, so they were getting around pretty well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2018
But what was there, in those dozens of stickies, was so captivating that Mr. Patel knew he had to have the role.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2016
As you can imagine, over the years I’ve had my share of notebooks, stickies, legal pads and the like.
From Forbes ● Jun. 27, 2013
Does that music-critic writing really make the service stickier?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
“Hot U.S. inflation data from a couple of weeks ago continues to feed through rates and FX, keeping Fed expectations stickier on the hawkish side whenever oil sells off.”
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
But policymakers eyeing rate cuts to support households will be wary of elevated prices in the services sector, which typically prove stickier than industrial prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
If you have a job doing specifically that, things get stickier.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026
But is it possible to make a show even stickier than Sesame Street?
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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“To think that Google would somehow displace the most complete end-to-end solution in the marketplace with the strongest and stickiest agent product suite seems rather far-fetched,” he wrote.
From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026
According to economist Matthew Nestler, the care economy has become one of the stickiest sources of inflation in the United States.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
This summer has been one of the stickiest ever across the East Coast, according to a new metric, and with scorching temperatures this week, it isn’t done yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2025
The stickiest issue for the government is that these smaller class sizes and higher spending hasn't necessarily led to notably better outcomes.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Of all the sticky things that had come out of that doll’s mouth, that may have been the stickiest.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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