unstick

Example Sentences

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"We - our team and the United States administration - came to Beijing in order to unstick what has been stuck since almost last August," Kerry told reporters late on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Jul. 19, 2023

Roy runs into Phoebe’s teacher — yay, Phoebe, genuinely and always — and she says he seemed “stuck” the last time they spoke, which evidently serves to immediately unstick him.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

“She was stuck and needed a lawyer to unstick the situation,” Hruska said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2023

Since industrialization — and World War II was the apotheosis of an industrial-age war — it would seem that technology has conspired to accelerate our lives and so unstick us in time.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2022

I knew I had to unstick myself if I wanted to see Jackie and Tito Jackson.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia