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Recent Examples of gum
Shira Gill, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Symptoms of scurvy include swollen or bleeding gums, loose teeth, fatigue, bruising, wounds that won’t heal, skin discoloration and infections.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Sarah Emerson, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Many importers then quietly used the San Pedro ports to store containers, causing a logjam of ships waiting to berth and gumming up the entire supply chain system.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Clean out your daily-use bag Has your daily-use bag become a catch-all for crumpled receipts, gum wrappers, and stray household items?
—Shira Gill, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Symptoms of scurvy include swollen or bleeding gums, loose teeth, fatigue, bruising, wounds that won’t heal, skin discoloration and infections.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Verb
Deborah Fisher, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, told Forbes that NDAs don’t supersede the state’s public records law, but have been used to gum up access to information.
—Sarah Emerson, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Many importers then quietly used the San Pedro ports to store containers, causing a logjam of ships waiting to berth and gumming up the entire supply chain system.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
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Slap one of these absorbent, hydrocolloid-rich patches on your zit before bed and wake up to witness the goo drawn out—no popping necessary, U Beauty The Super Hydrator $68 $54 Amazon Got fine lines?Annie Blackman, Allure, 2 Dec. 2024
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Another big thing about the original is the fluorescent colors of the blood and goo.William Earl, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
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Clothes with pet hair can clump and stick to the washing machine, and spread to the next load.Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2024
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The coffee grounds can clump inside the filter basket if they’re packed too densely, and extraction is often unpredictable.Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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But the question of which artists to tar as complicit with their governments’ policies is not a simple one, and boycotts are a blunt instrument at best.Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
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In one such instance, the Remain campaign had designed a poster intended to tar the Leave camp with the brush of extremism by showing Johnson inside the breast pocket of Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP.Anand Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2017
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Letting Pets Damage the Tree Curious pets can cause serious damage to your tree by knocking it over or chewing on it.Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
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Sitting in her highchair in just a diaper, Townes babbled happily while attempting to chew the meat as juices ran down her body.Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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For K-pop girl group TWICE, the second go-round with Megan Thee Stallion is definitely two times dope.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2024
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There’s all these different people that created really dope brands that were fashionable.Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2024
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At times, beautiful objects must have seemed the only constants: porcelain, pearl necklaces, Louis XIV furniture, Old Master oils.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Remember that the polite squeaky wheel typically gets oiled first.Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2024
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The mucilage in bladderwrack—a gel-like substance—can benefit individuals with gastritis or indigestion by coating irritated mucous membranes along the digestive tract.Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Chia's soluble fiber and mucilage form a thick and sticky gel in the digestive system, which may prevent the absorption of nutrients.Amy Brownstein, MS, RDN, Verywell Health, 9 Sep. 2024
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Sadly, there are countless more examples like these larding my social media feed and surely those of tens of thousands of others.DJ Rosenthal, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
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This expensive, but frequently cheap-looking, placeholder is historical, but larded up with clunky fiction.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024
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“Gum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gum. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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