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Recent Examples of gum
Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Sticky things like gum and tape get glued to the sides.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The uncertainty gummed up our ability to draw a family tree for these starchy vegetables and all their relatives.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Inside the boot, California shearling creates an enveloping sense of warmth, while a semi-transparent gum sole reveals the ERL logo underneath the shoe.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Sticky things like gum and tape get glued to the sides.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
Carolina is not talented enough, nor threatening enough — particularly without McMillian — to gum this game up.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The uncertainty gummed up our ability to draw a family tree for these starchy vegetables and all their relatives.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
Noun
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With a bald noggin and spattered in white goo, Stone looks otherworldly while defending her humanity.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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This American remake of the South Korean drama Il Mare is romantic goo that’s relatively easy to resist, and its ruminations on fate, love, destiny, and luck are all pretty standard for the genre.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Alzheon's product is meant to keep plaques from forming in the first place, by preventing amyloid proteins from clumping at all.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
29 Oct. 2025
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Navigating the world of priming serums can be a slippery slope due to heavy formulas and glitter-like ingredients that clump upon application.—
Tatayana Yomary,
Essence,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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
Verb
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To add to the hilarity, one of the dachshunds appeared to have chewed through a couch cushion and somehow gotten stuck inside it, with its head and legs filmed protruding through the torn fabric.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Villalvir recommended starting with a small to medium squash, since the skin tends to be thinner and easier to chew.—
Kathleen Ferraro,
Verywell Health,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Touch on the New Dallas movement as well, which has been dope to see you guys making noise.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
27 Oct. 2025
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Now, as far as the females that’s on the song, that was dope as hell.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Owners of the 2015 Chevy Equinox LS frequently report engine issues because of oil leaks that cause parts of the engine to not be oiled properly, according to ReRev, a car advice website.—
Gina Lee Castro,
jsonline.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Once your table is ready, heat up your grill on the burner—use a small piece of fat to oil the grill, or a paper towel lightly soaked in vegetable or sesame oil.—
Irene Yoo
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Okra Okra is known for its sticky mucilage, which works as a thickening agent for stews and gumbo.—
Stephanie Brown,
Verywell Health,
19 Sep. 2025
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But lately, a lot of growers in Latin America and Africa have begun to try out natural process beans, fermenting some of the coffee berry sugars or mucilage.—
Matthew Korfhage,
Wired News,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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 4 Nov. 2025.
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