gum
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He also recommends travelers bring motion-sickness patches or chew on gum, which can mitigate some of the issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The researchers then engineered the bean gum to contain protegrin, an antimicrobial peptide capable of killing harmful bacteria.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
It has the same ingredients — from beef to xanthan gum — but of course the inputs, such as property rates and labor costs, vary widely from country to country.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
A turkey sandwich and a pack of mint gum appeared to be the more prudent option.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
“We both ended up with gum in our hair.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
But conditions worsened Friday when they discovered they could not offload a neutralizing agent in the failing tank because the valves had broken and were gummed up.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 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
The process, normally gummed up, is even more difficult lately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
The baby gummed her slobbery mouth on her new bracelet.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
That is gumming up private-equity’s tried-and-true formula of raising money from investors to buy companies, then flipping them for a profit a few years later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 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
He said things were "gumming up" as each individual passport had to be inspected and stamped post-Brexit.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2023
A never-ending stream of glowing sludge forced itself into the engines, whirling around the propellers, gumming them up, slowing them down, bringing them closer to the breaking point.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
