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Recent Examples of gum
Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
Although sugar-free gum may help reduce cavities, Fox News Digital has previously reported that dentists warn acids, sweeteners and excessive chewing may harm teeth or trigger other side effects.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 4 Oct. 2025
Reiner, unlike many other directors traveling in this genre, has the confidence and finesse not to gum it up with gratuitous special effects.
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
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Noun
They weren't allowed to have gum.
—Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
Although sugar-free gum may help reduce cavities, Fox News Digital has previously reported that dentists warn acids, sweeteners and excessive chewing may harm teeth or trigger other side effects.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
Verb
This is a brilliant move given trial attorneys gum up the rate-review process and are paid handsomely for it.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 4 Oct. 2025
Reiner, unlike many other directors traveling in this genre, has the confidence and finesse not to gum it up with gratuitous special effects.
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
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The world of Obex — and, by extension, the real world that Conor avoids — is frightening, full of textures (goo, mud, flames) and bugs whose yuckiness transcends 8-bit animation.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2026
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Mucilage is found across the plant world Okra is not the only plant with goo-producing levels of mucilage.—
Andrew Coletti,
Popular Science,
14 Jan. 2026
Verb
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However, sometimes the abnormal IgA (the antibody that clumps up and causes problems) does run in families.—
Brandi Jones,
Health,
15 Jan. 2026
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If done improperly, wet down can clump.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
14 Jan. 2026
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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
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And given the Nuggets plenty of clues to chew on.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
9 Jan. 2026
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The youngest chewing-gum seller would adopt the conspiratorial tones of a seasoned Kremlinologist, seeing signs and premonitions in every event.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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That’s the big fat dope’s line.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
10 Jan. 2026
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But hey, at least these dopes get a periodic recess, right?—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
6 Jan. 2026
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Mohapi adds that oiling a dry scalp works best before washing, not after.—
Iman Balagam,
Vogue,
8 Jan. 2026
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And also to oil a narrative first perfected by Fidel Castro and then by Chávez himself – both leaders in the Latin American left.—
Inés Capdevila,
CNN Money,
7 Dec. 2025
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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
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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 16 Jan. 2026.
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