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Recent Examples of gum
Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Mar. 2025
The most-common ones include vomiting; diarrhea; lethargy; loss of appetite; drooling; tremors or seizures; difficulty breathing; and pale gums.
—Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Still, blood’s habit of coagulating, so useful in the body, proved a challenge outside of it: within a few minutes of beginning a transfusion, clots would gum up the needles and tubes, seriously limiting the quantity of blood that could be moved from person to person.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Noun
After the viral gum moment, Brody continued to create buzzy Oscars moment with his acceptance speech.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Mar. 2025
The most-common ones include vomiting; diarrhea; lethargy; loss of appetite; drooling; tremors or seizures; difficulty breathing; and pale gums.
—Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
President Donald Trump has issued executive orders pausing almost all federal grants and loans, halting medical research, gumming up payment systems for Medicaid recipients in the states.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Still, blood’s habit of coagulating, so useful in the body, proved a challenge outside of it: within a few minutes of beginning a transfusion, clots would gum up the needles and tubes, seriously limiting the quantity of blood that could be moved from person to person.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
Noun
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At Gropius Bau, black goo dripped from a handblown hourglass counting down specifically to the end of the exhibition.—
Emily McDermott,
ARTnews.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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An invisible microwave shot out of the tube and made the center of the brick look like a glowing white sun; an inky goo bubbled out.—
Brent Crane,
The New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Consumer Complaints Led To The Recall Danone North America initiated this recall after receiving customer complaints about the following complaints: Odd texture and separation – Consumers reported that the creamer was clumping or separating before the expiration date.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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My lashes are non existent without mascara and a lot of them clump my lashes together but the Anastasia Beverly Hills Lash Sculpt Lengthening & Volumizing Mascara has been a repurchase for me ever since receiving.—
Gina Vaynshteyn,
StyleCaster,
11 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The final few months of the race saw multiple Best Picture hopefuls tarred by one online controversy or another, from The Brutalist’s use of AI to Anora star Mikey Madison forgoing an intimacy coordinator.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
22 Feb. 2025
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For a half-century, Republicans have tarred them as soft on crime.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
Verb
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An alien spaceship has spiked an immensely popular bubblegum with an interdimensional ectoplasm that turns everyone who chews it into zombies, and the only ones who can save humanity are bickering foster brothers Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (both voiced by Eric Bauza).—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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Ancient Scandinavians chewed birch sap 10,000 years ago and Mayans loved chicle.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Wagner: Playing against him (10 times) was dope, man.—
Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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The arts scene in the city is a major factor and so to be apart of that scene that is putting on events, playing dope shows and music is something that gives me lot of pride.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
14 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Use an oil mister or a pastry brush to oil the plates, which will prevent the overuse of oil and keep excess oil from building up on the grid plates.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Mar. 2025
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Moments later, it is stretched out, oiled and bubbly, on a sheet pan.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
Verb
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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 23 Mar. 2025.
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