as in to remain
to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time
we stuck around afterwards to help clean up
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Recent Examples of stick around
Looking ahead, frigid temperatures stick around through the first week of February.
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Ron Smiley, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Losing Top Performers To Team Friction Of course, optimizing how your team works with AI only works if your team sticks around, especially top performers who would be desirable to company competitors.
—Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The holiday stuck around to be a celebration of love with chocolate or heart-shaped gifts.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Is winter sticking around or is an early spring ahead?
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Jan. 2026
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Ron Smiley, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Losing Top Performers To Team Friction Of course, optimizing how your team works with AI only works if your team sticks around, especially top performers who would be desirable to company competitors.
—Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The holiday stuck around to be a celebration of love with chocolate or heart-shaped gifts.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Is winter sticking around or is an early spring ahead?
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stick around
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However, public opinion polling shows support for Alberta independence remains relatively low.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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How to play Over the longer term, Standard Chartered’s Gill said the bank remains bullish on gold and maintains an overweight position relative to a neutral portfolio allocation.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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When compared with other technologies, this actuator operates in a performance range no one had reached before – hydrogels can stretch 40% to 65% but stay below about 11,800 ft-lb per cubic foot.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Jan. 2026
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But there is now no clear path to funding DHS, or the rest of the government, if the funding stays joined after the shooting of Pretti.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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The palate leans on toffee, dark honey, orange peel, and a gentle rye spice that hangs around without dominating.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Memphis area is not expected to get above freezing temperatures for multiple days, so the snow on the ground and on roadways might hang around for a while.—
Brooke Muckerman,
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
28 Jan. 2026
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The groups would then open the hood or door of the machines and wait to determine whether an alarm or a law enforcement response had been triggered.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Interconnection queues have swelled to historic levels, with gigawatts of ready-to-build generation projects waiting years for grid connection studies and upgrades.—
Jon Markman,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Stick around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stick%20around. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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