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Recent Examples of gum
Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
In addition, Moon, an early adopter of oral beauty, launched Platinum Pro Glow Teeth Whitening Device, $130, that also employs red and yellow light (similar to skin care LED masks) to support gum health and better breath.
—Emily Burns, WWD, 22 Oct. 2024
Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2024
That deception has concrete impacts: Plastic bags that mistakenly end up at recycling centers can gum up machinery, start fires and contaminate bales of paper, which then can’t be recycled.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Meanwhile, over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy products, such as nicotine patches, gums and lozenges, have been on the market for decades.
—Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
In addition, Moon, an early adopter of oral beauty, launched Platinum Pro Glow Teeth Whitening Device, $130, that also employs red and yellow light (similar to skin care LED masks) to support gum health and better breath.
—Emily Burns, WWD, 22 Oct. 2024
Verb
Beyond causing poor performance, old gasoline resins can gum up fuel lines and carburetors, wreaking havoc on your engine’s fuel delivery system.
—Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2024
That deception has concrete impacts: Plastic bags that mistakenly end up at recycling centers can gum up machinery, start fires and contaminate bales of paper, which then can’t be recycled.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
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These handy, reusable linen bags are designed to keep veggies and leafy greens crisp for longer and to prevent them from dissolving into brownish-green smears of goo in a plastic bag.Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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First, this buy window goes well beyond a dip in the price of the goo.Brett Owens, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Misshapen tau proteins then clump together, forming aggregates within the cell.William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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The team designed mounts that hold up to four iPhones clumped together.Ben Dowsett, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2024
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An approach that focuses on food categories that consumers with the highest levels of overweight and obesity eat and drink the most will be more effective – instead of tarring all treats with the same brush.Hank Cardello, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
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Bitcoin has long been tarred as an artifact of the anarcho-capitalist fringe.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
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But those seeking restraint and something more clever than the usual carnage will find this talky (in a good way) creeper offers more to chew on than the genre norm.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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From its very first episode, Agatha All Along went to great lengths to show us that, even with WandaVision’s lead killed off in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, there was still plenty of — and perhaps too much — meat for Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness to chew on.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2024
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Scott Weiland was a notorious dope fiend, but managed to separate his art from his extracurricular pursuits.Henry Everingham, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2024
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That’s what was so dope about SOPHIE — that was her world, and anybody can enter it by listening to her music.Justin Curto, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
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Looks like Trump might be oiling the wheels for Kennedy Jr. to determine what happens with health and science policy, operations and research in the U.S. government.Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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While bamboo and wood cutting boards should never go in the dishwasher, keeping them oiled will help to prevent future stains.Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 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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Slippery elm: This herb, like marshmallow root, contains mucilage.Jessica Migala, Health, 19 June 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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But the new season suffers from both a surfeit of ideas and a lack of vision, relegating beloved relationships to the background while larding the show with characters and story lines that fail to compel.Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
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“Gum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gum. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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