Synonyms for sticking
stick·ing

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1. sticking

   Adhesive is the scientific, sticking or sticky the popular word. That which is adhesive tends to join itself to the surface of any other body with which it is placed in contact; cohesive expresses the tendency of particles of the same substance to hold together. Polished plate glass is not adhesive, but such plates packed together are intensely cohesive. An adhesive plaster is in popular language a sticking-plaster. Sticky expresses a more limited, and generally annoying, degree of the same quality. Glutinous, gummy, viscid, and viscous are applied to fluid or semi-fluid substances, as pitch or tar.

   Synonyms:
   adhesive, cohesive, glutinous, gummy, sticky, viscid, viscous

   Antonyms:
   free, inadhesive, loose, separable

   Preposition:
   The stiff, wet clay, adhesive to the foot, impeded progress.

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1. jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking out(p)adjective

   extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

   "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"

   Antonyms:
   intrusive

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1. stickingnoun

   Synonyms:
   adhesion, adherence, coherence, cleaving, cohesion, agglutination

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1. List of paraphrases for "sticking":

   friction, stuck

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1. Rick Roth:

   To say that one particular issue is a sticking point to a potential deal just isn’t based in reality.  A number of very serious issues remain for countries to negotiate.

2. Mayor Louie Trujillo:

   There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls. We hope to beat the monsoon season, doing some of the interventions we're going to have to do along the watershed.

3. Andrew McNulty:

   He is a previous governor, and I had no complaints with him then, so I am sticking with what we know.

4. Las Vegas:

   There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls.

5. Dell Polanco:

   If you’re working out, sticking out with regular water is your best bet.