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Sticky Note

American  
Trademark.
  1. a usually small piece of paper with an adhesive strip on the back that allows it to adhere to surfaces and be repositioned with ease.


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"Sometimes, it's more like a sticky note that gets stuck to the pages, making it hard to read and use. That's what these GSH-DNA adducts are doing."

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2025

Sheldon Whitehouse went through a stack of the same issues of the Economist and attached a sticky note to mark a particular article.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2024

Volunteers wrote Schaaf’s name on a sticky note and compared it to the sign-in sheet that helps keep track of people and find family.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2023

The volunteers stuck a yellow sticky note with a number on each driver’s door reflecting the number of household residents, a running tally of desperation: 13, 6, 1.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2022

The next day, I sneaked the donut back to him with a sticky note that read,I believe this is yours.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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