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We report direct atomic-force-microscope measurements of capillary force hysteresis (CFH) of a circular contact line (CL) formed on a long glass fiber, which is coated with a thin layer of soft polymer film and intersects a water-air interface. The measured CFH shows a distinct overshoot for the depinning of a static CL, and the overshoot amplitude grows logarithmically with both the hold time τ and fiber speed V. A unified model based on the slow growth of a wetting ridge and force-assisted barrier crossing is developed to explain the observed time (or state) and speed (or rate) dependent CL depinning dynamics over an aging soft surface. The experimental findings have important implications to a common class of problems involving depinning dynamics in a defect or roughness landscape, such as friction of solid interfaces.
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