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Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from tree bark not only to construct tools but also to treat wounds and fight bacterial infections.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

It starts with creating a Rightsizing Project book and then putting sticky, colored dots on items throughout your home to show what will go to your new home and what won’t.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

On the heels of a miserably sticky summer, an unusually long October heat wave is set to arrive, according to forecasters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Big banks, for their part, tend to covet customers’ direct-deposits, sticky funds that rarely move or chase rates, while accounting for the chance other deposits are flightier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

My heart poured out a rapturous reply, but my mouth was still filled with the sticky remains of bun and it never reached my lips.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

“Hot U.S. inflation data from a couple of weeks ago continues to feed through rates and FX, keeping Fed expectations stickier on the hawkish side whenever oil sells off.”

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

But the musical’s tangled narrative web has been a stickier challenge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

If countries don’t remedy the issues, the administration can impose tariffs, which analysts see as stickier than levies using other trade authorities.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

They took those sticky elements and tried to make them even stickier.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

“To think that Google would somehow displace the most complete end-to-end solution in the marketplace with the strongest and stickiest agent product suite seems rather far-fetched,” he wrote.

From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026

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

This summer has been one of the stickiest summers on record for New York City.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2025

Migration is the stickiest problem the two countries face, however.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025

“But I suppose even the stickiest pudding is better than a tar pit. Good night.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood