gum
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But it could also include kombucha, seaweed snacks, muesli and chewing gum, depending on their sugar content.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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
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
Curry pressed a bewitching soulfulness through all those layers of spirit gum and latex.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Then he ordered the men to take the gum out of their mouths & combine it into one large ball.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
But product development at larger companies is slow and rigid, often getting gummed up in corporate bureaucracy, Brasher said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 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
The housing market gummed up, people unable to move and all this at time when there is huge demand for more homes.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2024
The baby gummed her slobbery mouth on her new bracelet.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
In practice, it is gumming up urgent upgrades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
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
That ties up beds in the hospital, gumming up the usual flow of patients from the emergency department into inpatient beds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023
Even Granny stopped gumming her tobacco and looked interested.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
