Popular brands like iRobot Roomba, Shark, Dyson, and Black+Decker are offering big discounts on their robot, upright, cordless stick, and handheld vacuum cleaners.—Jessica Leigh Mattern, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023 Flaky Butter Crust Makes 2 (9-inch) crusts Ingredients: 1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup (81g) water
2 1/4 cups (291g) all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling
1 cup (2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into thin pats
In a small bowl, dissolve the sugar and salt in the water.—The View, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2023 The convenient design of the eye brightener stick makes application easy and perfect for on-the-go use.—Kathy Barr, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023 Add a bouquet of miniature blueberry pies on a stick.—Kristy Alpert, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Nov. 2023 Those range from a power LED that now turns green when the unit is fully charged to an analog stick that's less of a dust magnet to metal screws that are now easier to remove and replace for repairs.—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023 All vacuums, whether cordless, stick, or upright, can run into the issue of hair getting tangled up in the brushes and clogging the vacuum.—Rachel Trujillo, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023 The biggest complaint about cordless sticks is that older models tend to run out of power within 20 minutes, says Silva Nash.—Laura Daily, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023 This is one of Amazon’s latest streaming sticks, supporting 4K resolution, HDR10 Plus, Wi-Fi 6, and an Alexa voice remote.—Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2023
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While President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping this month agreed to restore military-to-military communication channels, Taiwan remained a sticking point in talks.—Vic Chiang, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023 Officials said that both Israel and the U.S. would suspend surveillance drone flights in the enclave -- operations that were one of the final sticking points in the talks.—Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2023 What Kore-eda doles out are not revelatory surprises so much as gradual enlightenments, and our attitude toward the characters is forbidden to settle or to stick.—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023 For assembly, all that’s required is sticking the tree to the pin in the center of the base.—Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2023 An offseason half-court drill during which Watkins was teamed with forwards Rayah Marshall and Taylor Bigby still sticks in Marshall’s mind.—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023 At the end of your time at camp, stick the lid back on the bucket and take your waste home to dispose of.—Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023 This is a hue that, after spending decades in color-spectrum Siberia, was recently dignified when Pantone nominated Viva Magenta as 2023’s Color of the Year—take that and stick it, stealth-wealth greige.—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023 Data transparency also remains a sticking point between media companies and striking actors, with SAG-AFTRA asking for a form of revenue sharing.—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2023 See More
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English stik, from Old English sticca; akin to Old Norse stik stick, Old English stician to stick
Verb (2)
Middle English stikken, from Old English stician; akin to Old High German sticken to prick, Latin instigare to urge on, goad, Greek stizein to tattoo
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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