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Recent Examples of gum
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
It’s clinically shown to improve gum health, all while making the flossing process at home much easier than just flossing with basic strings or picks.
—Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The uncertainty gummed up our ability to draw a family tree for these starchy vegetables and all their relatives.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Domestic violence quashed a squeaky-clean image that had once been suitable for Doublemint-gum ads, necessitating a new musical calculus that took a few spins to nail.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
It’s clinically shown to improve gum health, all while making the flossing process at home much easier than just flossing with basic strings or picks.
—Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
Carolina is not talented enough, nor threatening enough — particularly without McMillian — to gum this game up.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The uncertainty gummed up our ability to draw a family tree for these starchy vegetables and all their relatives.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
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This American remake of the South Korean drama Il Mare is romantic goo that’s relatively easy to resist, and its ruminations on fate, love, destiny, and luck are all pretty standard for the genre.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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Some stars collapsed to the sea floor, dissolved into piles of goo.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Navigating the world of priming serums can be a slippery slope due to heavy formulas and glitter-like ingredients that clump upon application.—
Tatayana Yomary,
Essence,
21 Oct. 2025
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The tree branches are pretty clumped together, versus having lots of individual limbs to bend.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
20 Oct. 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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Items mentioned in the ban include noncombustible products which can be chewed, absorbed, dissolved or ingested by other means.—
Dana Afana,
Freep.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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And in preparation for her arrival, Simpson removed her childhood teddy from her bed, worrying that Mabel would chew it.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Now, as far as the females that’s on the song, that was dope as hell.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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In the fray, Robbie throws the bag of dope into the river.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
13 Oct. 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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Platner’s campaign has an air of John Fetterman about it and thus far has proved both well organized and well oiled.—
Liz Mair,
The Washington Examiner,
26 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 29 Oct. 2025.
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