unstick
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The agreement could help unstick energy flows through Hormuz and ease pressure on the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
“It can unstick you, and you think, ‘OK, that was rubbish,’ or ‘Mine are loads better than yours,'” he said.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
"We - our team and the United States administration - came to Beijing in order to unstick what has been stuck since almost last August," Kerry told reporters late on Wednesday.
From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2023
Roy runs into Phoebe’s teacher — yay, Phoebe, genuinely and always — and she says he seemed “stuck” the last time they spoke, which evidently serves to immediately unstick him.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
I knew I had to unstick myself if I wanted to see Jackie and Tito Jackson.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
He unsticks the phone from his ear and stretches it out to me.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Good luck with this bureaucracy of becoming unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
Its plan to increase its manufacturing capacity could come unstuck if the market grows less than expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Her vocal stacks and counter-melodies are full of intricate detail; and her phrasing is exquisite, even on the jazz numbers where lesser pop singers would come unstuck.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
Over the last couple of years, the long-term political parallels between the U.S. and the United Kingdom seem to have come unstuck.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
I reached down and unstuck my underpants from my skin.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
By curling and uncurling their toes, geckos can alternate between sticking and unsticking from a surface, and thus easily move across it.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
But unsticking systems is not just a technological challenge.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
As we look toward unsticking calcified systems, we may find hope from a practice rarely celebrated by technological innovators: regulation.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
Thankfully, there are ways to manage this; unsticking that clog and getting everything flowing freely again.
From Forbes ● Sep. 6, 2014
The door shimmered when they pulled together, a vibration that traveled all the way up their arms, then it opened so suddenly with an unsticking feel—like tearing loose a strip of silent Velcro.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
