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. Jakob Chychrun:

   You don’t want to get in those spots, but it’s going to happen throughout the season, it’s a matter of sticking with it to get yourself out of it. We gave ourselves a chance tonight.

3. Jonathan Wober:

   This is an all too rare example of an airline management team setting a clear path and sticking to it, in the face of strong opposition from unions.

4. Chris Soules:

   My family and I are overwhelmed with this tragedy, but we are sticking together and we'll get through it, thank you for reaching out.

5. Salim Awad:

   We saw around four or five military vehicles on that street with rifles sticking out of them and one of them shot Shireen. We were standing right there, we saw it. When we tried to approach her, they shot at us. I tried to cross the street to help, but I couldn't.