unstuck
Americanadjective
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freed or loosened from being fastened or stuck.
When firmly pushed, the door became unstuck.
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out of order, control, or coherence; undone.
Their well-laid plans came unstuck under pressure.
adjective
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freed from being stuck, glued, fastened, etc
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to suffer failure or disaster
Etymology
Origin of unstuck
Example Sentences
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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
And it's while the attempt to constrain the pay bill that gobbles 55% of day-to-day spending is coming unstuck, two years into a three-year cap.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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
Men and women had to flood the areas around their cars and pickups in order to get them unstuck; they pulled them free with Ray Gusdorf s tractor.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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