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Riley Jones, Footwear News, 28 Jan. 2026
Prosecutors dropped misdemeanor charges last week brought against a teacher at Calumet City’s Creative Communications Academy who allegedly gave students nicotine gum during a class in October, according to Cook County court records.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
David Smiley, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2025
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, 19 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The FuelCell Rebel v5 ($145, style code MFCX9HM) is an outlier in more ways than one, as the only performance sneaker of the pack uses a Pearl Gray/Dusk Shower/Blue Bird combination and forgoes the gum rubber seen on the other models.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 28 Jan. 2026
Prosecutors dropped misdemeanor charges last week brought against a teacher at Calumet City’s Creative Communications Academy who allegedly gave students nicotine gum during a class in October, according to Cook County court records.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
Verb
Thousands of mail-in ballots arrived on Election Day, gumming up the vote count.
—David Smiley, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2025
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, 19 Oct. 2025
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When a spate of gruesome killings that resemble a decades-old crime rock a small town, disgraced detective Lee Dong-sik (Shin Ha-kyun) has a chance to restore his reputation with the help of young upstart investigator Han Joo-won (Yeo Jin-goo).—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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Disappointingly, the alien elements don’t reach full Screaming Mad George surrealism until the end of the movie, relying a bit too much on blue goo and screaming along the way.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Venus, Mercury, and Saturn will be clumped together just above the west horizon, the publication said, before setting an hour after sunset.—
Joshua Bessex,
Sacbee.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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These are gold NPs that clump together and form tiny spheres.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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Trump and conservatives, overall, are obsessed with tarring California — to them, the apotheosis of liberalism — as a violent, lawless, anti-American hellscape.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
11 June 2025
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Some loyalists were tarred and feathered, scalped, or even hanged.—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 June 2025
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Chewables are the traditional form that quickly breaks down in saliva as children chew them.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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Nobody gave teeth the update that modern jaws are chewing less on wild game and more on applesauce, especially in their youth.—
Sara Kiley Watson,
Popular Science,
4 Feb. 2026
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To remedy this, DIYers with plumbing experience can tighten up the valve with a set of channel locks, replace the valve, or repair the connection between the valve and the tank by adding plumber's dope or plumber's tape to help improve the seal.—
Timothy Dale,
The Spruce,
28 Jan. 2026
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This includes a new location, new hours, and as always, dope vibes!—
Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Another thing to consider is whether your wooden cutting board has been oiled.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026
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Prevent rust by cleaning cast iron right after cooking, drying it thoroughly, and oiling it every time.—
Emily Benda Gaylord,
The Spruce,
17 Jan. 2026
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Soaking chia seeds results in a gel-like coating, called mucilage, that surrounds the seeds.—
Team Verywell Health,
Verywell Health,
27 Jan. 2026
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The gel, called mucilage, forms on the seeds' outer layer.—
Randi Gollin,
Martha Stewart,
22 Jan. 2026
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When the Trump administration announced massive cuts to federal health agencies earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was getting rid of excess administrators who were larding the government with bureaucratic bloat.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
21 Aug. 2025
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Democrats larded the grant requirements with all types of woke nonsense dictating, among other things, where the stations had to be built and who would be allowed to build them.—
Las Vegas Review-Journal,
Twin Cities,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Gum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gum. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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