Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Freed from being stuck.
- idiom (come/become) To break down or fall apart.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unstick .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence
- adjective free
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Examples
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While I was writing that doomed journal article, I kept having to rerun analyses and rework some results, which ended up yielding some insights that got me unstuck from a totally different aspect of the project that I had given up as a dead end …. and is now a conference paper.
2009 September « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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While I was writing that doomed journal article, I kept having to rerun analyses and rework some results, which ended up yielding some insights that got me unstuck from a totally different aspect of the project that I had given up as a dead end …. and is now a conference paper.
Sunk costs « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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The reason so many of us are drawn to the idea of getting unstuck is because feeling stuck in life is such a common experience.
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: 4 Steps to Get Unstuck Ph.D. Elisha Goldstein 2010
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AFAIC, mini series like this can remain unstuck in tie, just like its previous chapter JLA Avengers is.
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The reason so many of us are drawn to the idea of getting unstuck is because feeling stuck in life is such a common experience.
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: 4 Steps to Get Unstuck Ph.D. Elisha Goldstein 2010
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Even if the choice doesn't stick at first, know that this practice in itself is training your mind to get unstuck from the cycles it gets caught in.
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: 4 Steps to Get Unstuck Ph.D. Elisha Goldstein 2010
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I have to be honest - sometimes I peek if I feel myself getting unstuck from the story ... and sometimes I peek with I just want to know how one particular storyline turns out.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Angela Knight - Guardian ARC Nalini Singh 2009
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… I subtitle it ‘How to get started, how to remain unstuck and how to create forever in any art form.’
How to Say Everything: Visual Storytelling Book Online » Comics Worth Reading 2010
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Between taking it out for post-work training rides, racing it on the weekends, scrubbing it down on Sunday afternoons trying to get that last bit of mud unstuck from the bottom bracket shell, me and the Raleigh spend a lot of time together.
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Even if the choice doesn't stick at first, know that this practice in itself is training your mind to get unstuck from the cycles it gets caught in.
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: 4 Steps to Get Unstuck Ph.D. Elisha Goldstein 2010
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