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Mike Digiovanna, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
The curds are then heated and stabilized (usually with ingredients like carob bean gum or carrageenan), in order to keep the texture smooth instead of crumbly.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Al Weaver, The Hill, 4 June 2025
The Senate should give the bill a substantial rewrite and Democrats should use all procedural tools in their arsenal to gum it up while explaining its shortcomings to the public.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
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Noun
The glass-half-empty crowd would see four teams that discarded Ureña like a bubble-gum wrapper, the 34-year-old right-hander getting designated for assignment four times in a span of four months.
—Mike Digiovanna, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
The curds are then heated and stabilized (usually with ingredients like carob bean gum or carrageenan), in order to keep the texture smooth instead of crumbly.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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
The Senate should give the bill a substantial rewrite and Democrats should use all procedural tools in their arsenal to gum it up while explaining its shortcomings to the public.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
Noun
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The only thing that had to be digitalized, was some of the melting goo and some of the flies jumping down.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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In one, the kitten sits by a backyard swimming pool full of rainbow goo.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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On impact, the particles clump together, blocking the flow of liquids and ions.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 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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Holliday’s portrayal of the gum-chewing diner waitress landed many of the show’s laughs.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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The leaves will be skeletonized or defoliated, or the needles of conifers will be chewed down to the branches.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Reid got invaluable dope (pun intended) from Kelce’s older brother, Jason, the great Eagles center whom Reid had drafted and coached.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Tyler has been off planting a false trail that the cops immediately fall for because Jericho law enforcement is three Normie dopes in a trench coat.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But the big keyhole was plain, oiled, in use.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
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Push tortilla rounds into muffin wells, oiled side down, to make little cups. 3.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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The digestive process strips the mucilage from the beans and induces fermentation.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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 19 Sep. 2025.
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