unstick
Americanverb (used with object)
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unsticks,
present (3rd person singular)
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unstuck,
past participle, past
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unsticking
present participle
verb (used without object)
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unsticks,
present (3rd person singular)
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unstuck,
past participle, past
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unsticking
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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unsticksimple
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unstickssimple
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have unstuckperfect
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has unstuckperfect
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am unstickingprogressive
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are unstickingprogressive
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is unstickingprogressive
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have been unstickingperfect progressive
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has been unstickingperfect progressive
Past
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unstucksimple
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had unstuckperfect
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was unstickingprogressive
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were unstickingprogressive
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had been unstickingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of unstick
Example Sentences
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The agreement could help unstick energy flows through Hormuz and ease pressure on the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
"We - our team and the United States administration - came to Beijing in order to unstick what has been stuck since almost last August," Kerry told reporters late on Wednesday.
From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2023
What I can't unstick from my brain is how defiant it is of simple determination.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2023
Since industrialization — and World War II was the apotheosis of an industrial-age war — it would seem that technology has conspired to accelerate our lives and so unstick us in time.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
We can unstick little stuff, with some effort, but our stuff stays unstuck.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
He unsticks the phone from his ear and stretches it out to me.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
In a note published Friday, they admitted their rationale for forecasting a weaker dollar has come unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Good luck with this bureaucracy of becoming unstuck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
Aston Villa's Tyrone Mings came unstuck in a Champions League game against Club Brugge in November 2024, conceding a penalty for handball after Emiliano Martinez kicked the ball to him.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But many family-run businesses come unstuck because they focus on short-term moneymaking, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Billy first came unstuck while World War Two was in progress.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
By curling and uncurling their toes, geckos can alternate between sticking and unsticking from a surface, and thus easily move across it.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
As we look toward unsticking calcified systems, we may find hope from a practice rarely celebrated by technological innovators: regulation.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
But unsticking systems is not just a technological challenge.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
Thankfully, there are ways to manage this; unsticking that clog and getting everything flowing freely again.
From Forbes ● Sep. 6, 2014
The boys worked together unsticking their bikes from the corner of Grandma’s porch, and at first, the pedals and wheels wouldn’t turn.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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