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. Guard Kyle Lowry:

   We're just out there playing with confidence, we're sticking with our principles. We're maintaining our principles and we're maintaining our composure.

2. Elissa Slotkin:

   What I wanted to see in this package is sticking to the very specific emergency need that the country has, and so I feel like there are a lot of things that I pushed for, and I believe in, especially money for our cities and towns. There's money for testing, like really critical things, and then there are some things that I don't feel like had to be in the bill, and what I'm trying to decide is does the net positive outweigh that negative.

3. Suidobashi CEO Kogoro Kurata:

   It's interesting, I'll give them that, but come on guys, make it interesting! Just building something huge and sticking guns on it... it's... super-American.

4. John Cantlie:

   When you are held captive, you've got a blindfold on, you've got a guy sticking a gun in your head, it is very real. It was inferred that we would meet our God, were we ready to meet God, that we had sown the seeds of our own destruction, the imagination can run riot.

5. Paul Bourg:

   You can’t necessarily pile in with family members during COVID, more people than you’d think are sticking around.