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Recent Examples of gum
Shira Gill, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Symptoms of scurvy include swollen or bleeding gums, loose teeth, fatigue, bruising, wounds that won’t heal, skin discoloration and infections.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Beyond causing poor performance, old gasoline resins can gum up fuel lines and carburetors, wreaking havoc on your engine’s fuel delivery system.
—Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Clean out your daily-use bag Has your daily-use bag become a catch-all for crumpled receipts, gum wrappers, and stray household items?
—Shira Gill, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Symptoms of scurvy include swollen or bleeding gums, loose teeth, fatigue, bruising, wounds that won’t heal, skin discoloration and infections.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Verb
Many importers then quietly used the San Pedro ports to store containers, causing a logjam of ships waiting to berth and gumming up the entire supply chain system.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Beyond causing poor performance, old gasoline resins can gum up fuel lines and carburetors, wreaking havoc on your engine’s fuel delivery system.
—Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2024
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Another big thing about the original is the fluorescent colors of the blood and goo.William Earl, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
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These handy, reusable linen bags are designed to keep veggies and leafy greens crisp for longer and to prevent them from dissolving into brownish-green smears of goo in a plastic bag.Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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The rest of the Big Ten’s bowl teams are likely to be clumped together at 7-5 or 6-6.Austin Meek, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
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Misshapen tau proteins then clump together, forming aggregates within the cell.William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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An approach that focuses on food categories that consumers with the highest levels of overweight and obesity eat and drink the most will be more effective – instead of tarring all treats with the same brush.Hank Cardello, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
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Bitcoin has long been tarred as an artifact of the anarcho-capitalist fringe.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
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Solid foods must essentially be transformed into liquids, and chewing is a very important part of that process.Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2024
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The miniature dachshund, named Bagel, was filmed wandering around the house confidently with an empty carton of milk, before taking it to chew in his crate.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
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The chicken Hei Hei remains an panicky, adorable dope of a bird indeed, treated like a demigod by the coconut tribe.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 26 Nov. 2024
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When Helen shows up with a fiancé who happens to be a plastic surgeon (Christopher Sieber, one of our finest onstage dopes), Madeline inevitably grabs him too.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
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Remember that the polite squeaky wheel typically gets oiled first.Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2024
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Looks like Trump might be oiling the wheels for Kennedy Jr. to determine what happens with health and science policy, operations and research in the U.S. government.Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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The mucilage in bladderwrack—a gel-like substance—can benefit individuals with gastritis or indigestion by coating irritated mucous membranes along the digestive tract.Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Chia's soluble fiber and mucilage form a thick and sticky gel in the digestive system, which may prevent the absorption of nutrients.Amy Brownstein, MS, RDN, Verywell Health, 9 Sep. 2024
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Sadly, there are countless more examples like these larding my social media feed and surely those of tens of thousands of others.DJ Rosenthal, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
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This expensive, but frequently cheap-looking, placeholder is historical, but larded up with clunky fiction.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024
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“Gum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gum. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.
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