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

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

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2023

Meanwhile, executives realize that if they don’t persuade their employees to come back now, with pandemic restrictions eased in most areas, the new norms of flexible work will be hard to unstick.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2022

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 dithered outside the barbershop next to the portrait studio, trying to unstick my feet and go back.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu