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. Jeff Carter:

   It's a resilient group, you give one up, you get right back on the horse and get working. A real strong game in that sense from our team, sticking with it, grinding it out and ultimately getting the win.

2. Neil Patrick Harris:

   We’re three seasons all in, we’ve intentionally been very truthful and factual and loyal to thebooks. We’ve added a few characters that aren’t in the books, we’ve added somesongs that you probably couldn’t put into the books, but for the most partwe’re sticking to the structure of what already worked.

3. Vice President Joe Biden:

   I call it sticking with what works.

4. Richard De Meo:

   There can be serious business risks to them sticking to long-term policies in a situation like this. They are in communication with the chairman, the MDs (managing directors), the board.

5. Keyonna Moore:

   Not for social media and not just to get people to like her for doing something so good, but from the kindness of her heart. She’s a very good friend to Tyuan and she’s planning on sticking beside him.