stick

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Whether that date will stick is another question.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The shift to cooler weather, however, isn’t forecast to stick around long.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

He’d apparently found a new stick, a fallen tree limb that splintered into a hundred tiny daggers.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman