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Recent Examples of gum
Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Really, there’s only one character onstage who commands an audience’s attention, and that’s Hines’ gum-smacking sister-in-law, who turns from antagonist to supporter.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025
Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 July 2025
The issue came up for Senate Republicans at a conference-wide meeting Wednesday, where some were itching to lower the cap but wary of gumming things up for Johnson.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 4 June 2025
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Noun
Xylitol, a sweetener found in gum and toothpaste, can trigger a dangerous drop in blood sugar and lead to liver failure.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Really, there’s only one character onstage who commands an audience’s attention, and that’s Hines’ gum-smacking sister-in-law, who turns from antagonist to supporter.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
Here, a stickiness in performance also gums up the writing.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 July 2025
The issue came up for Senate Republicans at a conference-wide meeting Wednesday, where some were itching to lower the cap but wary of gumming things up for Johnson.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
Noun
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The black goo helped bring about the end of the Engineers; the xenomorphs, the end of various colonist human groups; and now the Lost Boys are wrenching the world from their adult overlords.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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Once the goo is on her, ideally, Ellen will just chill until the substance cures or whatever the heck it’s supposed to do.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
19 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Up next will be the construction of new water quality testing lab space in a building previously dedicated to flocculation, or getting particles to clump together for easier removal.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
26 Sep. 2025
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Time for some more electrolytes, but it’s clumped in the tube!—
R29 Team,
Refinery29,
19 Sep. 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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Evidence of damage includes chewed, cut or missing leaves; yellowing or brown leaves; white webbing and green-black excrement on or around the plant, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
2 Oct. 2025
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With six exhibition games in the last nine days, the Detroit Red Wings’ preseason slate has given plenty for the team’s brass to chew on.—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And now a lot of people stop me on the street and that’s pretty dope too.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
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And yet, this was only one group of stateside traffickers that received dope from the Colombian cartels.—
Martin Suarez,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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
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Lightly oil the fronts and backs of your hands.—
Erin Hooker,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 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 9 Oct. 2025.
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