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Recent Examples of gum
Katie Camero, SELF, 27 Nov. 2024
Injunctions to block Big League Chew from claiming ownership in trade dress and to prohibit Big League Chew from replacing Ford Gum with another gum manufacturer are also demanded.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Dec. 2024
John Berlau, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Those tasked with shepherding Desert Warrior acknowledge that sand has gummed up the movie’s gears.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
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Noun
That’s because your swollen gums are actually releasing tiny bits of blood that aren't totally noticeable because your saliva is constantly clearing it away.
—Katie Camero, SELF, 27 Nov. 2024
Injunctions to block Big League Chew from claiming ownership in trade dress and to prohibit Big League Chew from replacing Ford Gum with another gum manufacturer are also demanded.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Verb
Congress also has a role in reforming the many mandates, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, that have gummed up capital formation in public markets.
—John Berlau, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Those tasked with shepherding Desert Warrior acknowledge that sand has gummed up the movie’s gears.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
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There were photorealistic renderings of male and female heads and bodies festooned with strange confetti-like colored goo.John Werner, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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My husband, Dave, still wears the shirt with his workplace nickname – The Spam King – printed in the iconic Spam lettering, nestled in the yellow goo from the can.Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
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While certain types of salt may lose potency, clump up, or change in texture, the core structure of the salt will remain intact.Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2025
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At the top of the cosmic hierarchy, giant groups of galaxies clump into sprawling, matter-rich filaments and sheets around gaping intergalactic voids, but past that, structure seems to peter out.Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2025
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The 2012 campaign was marked by an early effort by Democrats to tar Mr. Romney as an insensitive, rapacious businessman willing to send jobs overseas.Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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The Islamic Republic, like many dictatorships, exploits this history to justify its internal repression and external ambitions: peaceful protesters, civil rights activists, and journalists are invariably tarred as foreign agents and subjected to violence and imprisonment.Karim Sadjadpour, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2022
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However, his dog Cosmo had other plans and decided to chew the poppers instead, covering himself in blue ink in the process.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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Will Berube continue to rely on the 33-year-old to chew heavy minutes?Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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There’s a producer, Child Actor, who’s really dope that was on my radar.Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024
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Gambino boss John Gotti knew that Ruggiero was talking about dealing dope on F.B.I. surveillance tapes.airmail.news, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
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Lightly oil your knife or coat with nonstick spray and cut the caramel into 1 inch squares.Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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The spray-on scent has a skin-softening base of sweet almond, macadamia, argan, and apricot kernel oils.Jenny Berg, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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During fermentation, natural enzymes and microorganisms break down the sugars and proteins in the mucilage, modifying the beans’ acidity, sweetness, and overall flavor profile.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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The digestive process strips the mucilage from the beans and induces fermentation.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 31 Dec. 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 20 Jan. 2025.
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