sticky
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“Even if it’s a couple degrees cooler ... with the humidity, it’s really going to be pretty sticky and uncomfortable,” Ciliberti said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Using sticky notes, booksellers had shared reflections on books they had read or highlighted passages they found particularly meaningful.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
This year’s upward march in bond yields has many drivers, from sticky inflation to heavy AI-linked corporate borrowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
To efficiently connect short pieces of DNA, scientists rely on overhanging sequences called sticky ends.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
I didn’t see any sticky stuff on theirs.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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This is also a good time to break out those port-style stickies you picked up on your visits to local wineries.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
Transfers like this should be simple, but this fat document with little stickies pointing to places that required details and signatures was proof it wasn’t.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2021
The track-prepared M40i’s were equipped with the optional electromechanically locking rear differential and shod with 20-inch summer stickies, so they were getting around pretty well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2018
But what was there, in those dozens of stickies, was so captivating that Mr. Patel knew he had to have the role.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2016
As you can imagine, over the years I’ve had my share of notebooks, stickies, legal pads and the like.
From Forbes ● Jun. 27, 2013
In the run-up to last month’s meeting, a prominent worry was that the Middle East conflict and the higher energy costs it produced could broaden into stickier inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Does that music-critic writing really make the service stickier?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
The problem, given recent events in the Strait of Hormuz, is “a stickier path for core inflation.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
If you have a job doing specifically that, things get stickier.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026
But it becomes easy to understand how you would make a children’s show even stickier than Sesame Street.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Cook, 65, turned Apple into one of the stickiest product ecosystems ever.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Fesenko, the analyst, said Zelensky’s method of pressing partners on specifics, including about the mechanics of the implementation of the stickiest points, has allowed him to continue constructive conversations without folding on key issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
According to economist Matthew Nestler, the care economy has become one of the stickiest sources of inflation in the United States.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
The stickiest issue for the government is that these smaller class sizes and higher spending hasn't necessarily led to notably better outcomes.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
“But I suppose even the stickiest pudding is better than a tar pit. Good night.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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