to unstick
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- verb
- /ʌnˈstɪk/
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desbloquear
- If you're stuck in a situation, we got to go back to how you got unstuck last time.
So how do you get Ray Dalio unstuck from your perspective?
- So how do you get Ray Dalio unstuck from your perspective?
- If so, how will you get unstuck?
- But they've kind of gotten stuck in my brain and I thought, well, maybe I could unstick them by sharing them with you.
- I've been asking to serve for for so many years and feeling like I've got it a gift of helping people get unstuck, but I'm not sure how well you did it with me.
- So where I'm stuck as a person, my children will be stuck, or they'll be spending their life trying to get unstuck, you see.
- Find your joy, you know, don't live, don't live uncomfortably, you know, and if you're feeling like you're stuck, get unstuck.
- The book Emotional agility, Get unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in work and life.
- Again, that's a big trauma bonded kind of thing to get to get unstuck from.
- And I can say that it always how any one of those options gets me unstuck.
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It just goes to show that whenever you think you're stuck, something will come along to unstick you!
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It means that when we can't get unstuck, we haven't acknowledged, honored, addressed something that is asking for us to address it.
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Okay, well, can you help us unstick them, then?
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Okay, but just put your weight on the front foot... - and then you unstick the back one.
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So where I'm stuck as a person, my children will be stuck, or they'll be spending their life trying to get unstuck, you see.
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If you find yourself stuck in a tough situation, it's time to find a way to unstick your thoughts and move forward.
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After several attempts to unstick the project, we finally made some progress.
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She needed to unstick her creative ideas to finish the painting before the deadline.
Synonyms
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To start working hard without delay
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To free something that is stuck so it can move or work again
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To free something that is stuck by removing what blocks it so it can move again
To remove a block so water or air can flow again
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Etymology
Unstick comes from the beginning un- meaning 'not' and the common word stick meaning 'to hold in place'. A helpful way to remember the figurative use is to picture a stuck wheel starting to turn, so to unstick a project or idea is to make it begin to move or make progress again.