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Recent Examples of gum
Nicole Pajer, People.com, 23 May 2025
The silicone head gently massages your baby’s gums, while the electric toothbrush provides a deeper clean.
—Laura Lu, Parents, 22 May 2025
CBS News, 12 Mar. 2025
Heat waves can gum up hospitals enough to bring deadly consequences even beyond patients directly afflicted, a new study finds.
—Ben Geman, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Even inflammation from gum disease or untreated tooth decay can be a hidden contributor.
—Nicole Pajer, People.com, 23 May 2025
The silicone head gently massages your baby’s gums, while the electric toothbrush provides a deeper clean.
—Laura Lu, Parents, 22 May 2025
Verb
Such tariffs can hurt the economy directly by raising prices for U.S. consumers and gumming up global trade.
—CBS News, 12 Mar. 2025
Heat waves can gum up hospitals enough to bring deadly consequences even beyond patients directly afflicted, a new study finds.
—Ben Geman, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
Noun
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Unlike liquid sanitizer, wipes won't leak in your bag, which means no surprise goo on your stuff.—
Gregory Robinson,
Travel + Leisure,
31 May 2025
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The song structures melt into goo; the lyrics pelt flecks of raw feeling.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
3 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The wet clippings clump together on the mower blades and in the lawn.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
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Long before stars even formed, dark matter clumped up and drew regular matter together with its gravity, providing the invisible scaffolding upon which stars and galaxies eventually grew.—
Stephen Clark – Jun 6,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
Verb
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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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As Jimmy Page says, guitars were tarred by the brush of rock and roll.—
Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
Verb
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This moment sticks in the mind, the intimacy of a family in which a present for the mother becomes a treat for the child, whose chewed and discarded food is finished by the father.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Plenty to chew through for you there, but that’s not all from the Deadline team at SXSW London this week.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
Noun
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That’s perhaps to demonstrate how unaffected and unscathed that J.B., a comfortably middle-class white guy who comes from a comfortably middle-class family, is from all that noise of draft dodgers, dope fiends, and radical feminists banging on the door.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
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Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World's Great Universities or Colleges.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The light non-foaming cream is enriched with shea butter, plus monoi, avocado, and tamanu oils to nourish the strands while removing scalp buildup.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
22 May 2025
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For example, the healing properties of the body oils in their first Desert Muse Collection are at the foundation of the brand.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
15 May 2025
Noun
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The digestive process strips the mucilage from the beans and induces fermentation.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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During fermentation, natural enzymes and microorganisms break down the sugars and proteins in the mucilage, modifying the beans’ acidity, sweetness, and overall flavor profile.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
Verb
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To be clear, the same can't be said for the rest of the internet, which every April Fools' Day lards its usual mystery blend of fact, rumor and misinformation with, well, still more misinformation — this time in the service of what some allege to be humor.—
Colin Dwyer,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2025
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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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“Gum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gum. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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