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Recent Examples of gooey So both fork and spoon should be provided when the dessert has both gooey and dry elements. Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025 Next month, Cinnabon is opening a first-of-its-kind location with sister brand Carvel that mashes up Cinnabon’s hot and gooey cinnamon rolls with Carvel’s ice creams for a selection of desserts. Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025 The secret to this fantastic recipe is pockets of bursting, gooey cheese in every bite. Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025 Scientist Richard Arnott told National Geographic that the fish only looks so gooey because of rapid depressurization when its brought to the surface. Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gooey
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Adjective
  • But just as she’s dragged back into the spotlight, her body begins to stage a quiet, sticky rebellion into a raw, absurd, and disturbingly relatable reckoning with art, womanhood, and the sheer chaos of being human.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 July 2025
  • Mercedes has this just about right, even with optional 22-inch AMG wheels shod with sticky high-performance Pirellis, as my test car was.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • The funny thing is, by all accounts, Zaslav is also genuinely sentimental about the network and said to even have it on at his office quite often.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 9 July 2025
  • On July 7, Richardson, who played Julia McNamara in the series, was feeling sentimental and reflected on the cast's experience filming the six-season drama in an Instagram post.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Some of it is good, but a lot of it is sloppy, outdated or full of vulnerabilities.
    Jimmie Lee, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Hein was sloppy, lazy and showed a lack of impartiality in dealing with him, Hicks said in his filing.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • The cyclist momentarily lost control of his motorcycle on wet pavement.
    Jon Rabiroff, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • Stay away from water, wet items, and metal objects.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • But Lavigne recalled that this grandmother wasn’t exactly warm and fuzzy.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • One of Yakovenko’s managers showed me a fuzzy black-and-white video, taken in April, of a night operation behind enemy lines.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025

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“Gooey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gooey. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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