stickiness

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Recent Examples of stickiness And my sources at Google shrug off Microsoft’s attempts, given the stickiness of their product. Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Use It To Help Flatten Chicken Breasts Before pounding any meat to create cutlets, use wax paper in between it and your mallet to help avoid any unwanted stickiness and keep it in place. Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025 However, there are other clear factors in the stickiness of housing inflation; namely, that the industry recovered extremely slowly from the crash of 2008. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stickiness
Noun
  • Finished with a glossy porcelain enamel coating, the dish is scratch-resistant and doesn’t retain moisture.
    Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The two ingredients work well together to prevent signs of aging, alongside squalane for moisture and tartaric acid, which helps the skin absorb product more easily.
    Akili King, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This came after the Reds conceded twice against Crystal Palace in the Community Shield, raising doubts about Liverpool’s defensive solidity.
    Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • This was a day on which Arsenal relied on the solidity of Raya, Gabriel and William Saliba to secure the result.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Makeup by Mario SoftSculpt Blurring Bronzer Testers said this sweat-and humidity-proof bronzer warms up skin like no other.
    Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The fire will remain active throughout the night as humidity will remain low and terrain and heavy fuels align for moderate fire spread.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Both men argued that, after the media mogul's death, the company would need stability in the top leadership ranks and consistency in its core conservative principles to retain the loyalty of its audiences.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Packers’ defense sacked Goff four times in this NFC North battle as the Lions’ offense struggled to find consistency early in their campaign.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Perfect for a day at the office, the style offers all the dressiness of leather loafers with none of the stuffiness.
    Amina Ayoud, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Many equate an omakase restaurant with stuffiness and outrageous prices.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The dampness of their skin draws a burring frenzy of sandflies and they are driven from the reservoir’s edge, Tamsin swatting her sunhat in wide arcs to fend them off.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The model accounts for temperature-dependent properties like electrolyte viscosity and predicts voltage, ion concentrations, temperature, and power parameters.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Lava produced by stratovolcanoes typically has a high viscosity, traveling only short distances, and pyroclastic flows — avalanches of hot gases and debris — or mudflows can kill people up to a distance of 10 to 20 kilometers (six to twelve miles).
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Tropical soup What’s happening both in and over nearby oceans is to blame for this summer’s excessive mugginess.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In much of the East, the mugginess kept rising to near tropical levels for a few humid hours.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025

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“Stickiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stickiness. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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