sticky

How and why did the tide turn against this sticky substance?

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Birch tar is a thick, sticky substance obtained by heating birch bark.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Meanwhile, consumer-facing companies have been squeezed as higher borrowing costs and sticky inflation erode household purchasing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

It made his clothes feel sticky and itchy and uncomfortable.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

Even more than sparkling wines, stickies are for special occasions.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

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

Barclays analysts lifted their 2026 Brent forecast to $100 a barrel, saying that, the longer the conflict lasts, “the bigger and stickier the price shock,” in a note to clients on Friday.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

If you have a job doing specifically that, things get stickier.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026

How is it that such an unprepossessing show is even stickier than Sesame Street?

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

It was the mandatory element that became the magnet for the stickiest criticisms.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

“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

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 heaviest mud he could find, the stickiest clay, Deydey tamped between the logs to seal the cracks.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich