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Recent Examples of gum
Rebecca Luther, TVLine, 20 Mar. 2025
Common symptoms include white, velvety lesions on your tongue, inner cheeks, gums, and throat, which can resemble cottage cheese.
—Sarah Jividen, Health, 13 Mar. 2025
Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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
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Noun
Calling all gum chewers, TV addicts and previously bedridden grandparents: Now’s your time to shine.
—Rebecca Luther, TVLine, 20 Mar. 2025
Common symptoms include white, velvety lesions on your tongue, inner cheeks, gums, and throat, which can resemble cottage cheese.
—Sarah Jividen, Health, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
Without any outside threat, opposing defenses felt comfortable packing the paint to gum up the offense around Reese and Cardoso, who were limited as a result.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
Noun
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The plastic — salvaged from a waste site and beach cleanup in Cape Town — is melted down into a black goo and turned into sculptures, Olivier tells Axios.—
Martin Vassolo,
Axios,
6 Dec. 2024
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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
Verb
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Types of Kitty Litter (and When to Use Them) Types of litter vary based on consistency, clumping ability, and scent.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Apr. 2025
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Tiny grains of dust scattered across the cosmos can collect in disks around young stars and clump together to eventually form planets.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
Verb
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In the meantime, party moderates are being tarred with progressive brushes, and Democratic leadership is unwilling or unable to do anything about it.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Mar. 2025
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The debates, the great solutions, DeFi itself, everything gets tarred with the unsafe brush.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Verb
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More so than your sleep position, experts say chewing habits play a bigger role.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
28 Mar. 2025
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To get that catnip frenzy, cats need only smell the catnip, but some cats will also chew catnip plants.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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He’s always supported me and has just been a dope person throughout the whole process.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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Think Omar from The Wire only these two end up robbing the wrong dope house.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Another common claim is that the seed oils’ high omega-6 and low omega-3 composition causes an imbalance that may increase the risk of chronic conditions by boosting inflammation in the body.—
Jonel Aleccia,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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After washing and drying, experts recommend oiling a wood cutting board to prevent drying and splitting.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 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 13 Apr. 2025.
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