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clump

[kluhmp] / klʌmp /




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The different theories provide different answers for how dark matter should clump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

While all these theories successfully describe the large-scale clumping scientists can measure, they disagree over how dark matter should clump on smaller scales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Without its normal interaction with microtubules, the protein can clump together and move into regions of neurons where it does not normally belong.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026

"It is a pretty-looking thing," he concedes, plucking fragments off a clump torn from a carpet of green moss.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

He ran off as fast as he could to the far end of the garden and hid himself behind that clump of dirty old laurel bushes that we mentioned earlier on.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

He’s lost weight and his hair falls out in clumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

So-called “dark matter” clumps around galaxies and snakes throughout space in long tendrils.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Peppercorn-sized clumps of human brain cells grown in a lab for a record seven years aged similarly to those inside our heads, suggesting they "recorded the passage of time," scientists said Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Amyloid plaques, sticky clumps of protein that accumulate in the brain, are like the fire.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Taran clawed away clumps of earth and roots.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

If damaged proteins have already clumped together, another process becomes important.

From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026

Shortly after, as the clock ticked, Smith clumped an ugly flat kick out on the full as he looked for Roebuck on a low-percentage play.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025

Unlike the previous two approvals, this new therapeutic, named donanemab, targets amyloid beta only at a later stage when it has clumped together to form plaques.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2025

But chromosomes clumped together, making it impossible to get an accurate count.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Satellite imagery shows thunderstorms clumping together to form Tropical Storm Isaias.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

"There are different tribes of people in every age group, but when you get older, people start clumping you together with other stereotypes," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

By looking at how dark matter’s gravity bends the light of galaxies, Roman will be able to measure this clumping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Roman will help scientists measure that small clumping for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Churchill came in with the equivalent of a loudhailer: delivering clumping great set pieces that occasioned Balfour’s famous taunt that his artillery was “powerful but not very mobile.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith




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