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Recent Examples of gum
Julia Ries, Health, 1 Apr. 2025
There is a vast difference between the gleaming rows of piano-key teeth that have overtaken our screens in the last decade and basic orthodontia that corrects the wonky bites and crowding that can lead to gum inflammation, jaw pain and headaches, even tooth loss over time.
—Valerie Monroe, Allure, 28 Mar. 2025
Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
President Donald Trump has issued executive orders pausing almost all federal grants and loans, halting medical research, gumming up payment systems for Medicaid recipients in the states.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Polymers give gum its elasticity, cohesiveness, and chewability.
—Julia Ries, Health, 1 Apr. 2025
There is a vast difference between the gleaming rows of piano-key teeth that have overtaken our screens in the last decade and basic orthodontia that corrects the wonky bites and crowding that can lead to gum inflammation, jaw pain and headaches, even tooth loss over time.
—Valerie Monroe, Allure, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
Without any outside threat, opposing defenses felt comfortable packing the paint to gum up the offense around Reese and Cardoso, who were limited as a result.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
President Donald Trump has issued executive orders pausing almost all federal grants and loans, halting medical research, gumming up payment systems for Medicaid recipients in the states.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gum
Noun
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When the fish are brought to the surface, however, the comparative lack of pressure causes their bodies to collapse into shapeless puddles of goo.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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At Gropius Bau, black goo dripped from a handblown hourglass counting down specifically to the end of the exhibition.—
Emily McDermott,
ARTnews.com,
11 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Types of Kitty Litter (and When to Use Them) Types of litter vary based on consistency, clumping ability, and scent.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Apr. 2025
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Tiny grains of dust scattered across the cosmos can collect in disks around young stars and clump together to eventually form planets.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
Verb
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In the meantime, party moderates are being tarred with progressive brushes, and Democratic leadership is unwilling or unable to do anything about it.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Mar. 2025
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The debates, the great solutions, DeFi itself, everything gets tarred with the unsafe brush.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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As the medical profession came to consider cocaine and morphine as equally dangerous, coca became associated with opium, and the public was led to believe that the ruinous effects of habitual opium use would inevitably befall those who regularly chewed coca leaves.—
Wade Davis,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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There is a test laboratory where samples of materials and finished bags are put through their paces, and a repair workshop where a weathered brown bag awaited rescue, its flap chewed by a dog.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2025
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For a title this beloved, the idea of cutting off future development feels like the end of a dynasty—one that has had a long run—but still the end of something dope.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Garcias might not be wealthy, but Frank has a restaurant, and Eva’s character is a travel writer who’s influential enough to be given this dope bus for their road trip.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The gift further connects revelers to Carved to Flow which began in a laboratory in Athens where oils, butters, and lye from the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North and West Africa were intermingled to create a soap.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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This spray uses grapefruit, lemon and tea tree oils to remove makeup buildup and preserve your tools.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The two primary methods are the washed (wet) process, where cherries are pulped, fermented, and washed to remove the mucilage before drying, and the natural (dry) process, where cherries are dried whole with the fruit intact, allowing the beans to absorb fruity flavors.—
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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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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This expensive, but frequently cheap-looking, placeholder is historical, but larded up with clunky fiction.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 July 2024
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“Gum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gum. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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