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. Susan Peckenschneider:

   We want our members to remain sticking with the program and to come back to our brand, and the best way to do that is to offer rewards that are enticing, relevant and valuable to their travel experience.

3. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz:

   Heidi, my wife -- she's the daughter of missionaries in Africa. She's my best friend in the world. If Donald wants to get in a character fight, he's better off sticking with me. Because Heidi is way out of his league.

4. Barney FrankBut Frank:

   Jerome Powell has been good, both on monetary policy and the regulatory side, there is something to be said for supporting confidence by sticking with Jerome Powell.

5. Penn State Jones:

   Traditionally, we're focused much more on academic achievement and more and more we're realizing through many studies that academic achievement is only one part of making somebody successful, if we're sticking with the schools analogy, it takes the discipline, it takes the motivation, the attitude, the ability to work with others and work with adults to be able to succeed in schools and attain degrees.