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clump

noun as in mass of something

noun as in thumping noise

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Their results suggest that during the "cosmic dark ages," dark matter gathered into dense clumps across space, pulling in hydrogen gas that emitted intense radio waves.

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A team from the University of Cambridge, UCL, the Francis Crick Institute, and Polytechnique Montréal developed a powerful imaging approach that allows scientists to visualize, count, and compare these protein clumps in human brain tissue.

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An X-ray showed the magnets had clumped together in four straight lines inside the child's intestines.

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But it is also important for everyday products that you do not want to clump together, such as cosmetics.

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It didn’t matter if the steps were spread out over multiple sessions or clumped together in long walks, researchers told Barron’s.

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