stickiness

Example Sentences

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The stickiness that once anchored people and capital to great cities is gone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

Lawrence Newman, chief executive of Beauty Tech Group, pointed to the city's five universities and "the stickiness of people wanting to live here post-university".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

"Clients are developing payment habits, and products are gaining customer stickiness," the Suanova CEO said.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

Potential stumbling blocks include the release of heaps of economic data delayed by the government shutdown, which could point to further weakness in the labor market or reinforce the stickiness of inflation.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025

But Levanthal and Wunderman’s examples suggest that there may be simple ways to enhance stickiness and systematically engineer stickiness into a message.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell