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It’s much simpler to persuade the audience to glom onto the spectacle of Haddix’s poor choices and forgive whatever murky choices Goode and his team make to thwart it.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
Using mouse antibodies that glom on to proteasomes, and other methods, the investigators found the proteasomes on the surface of neurons in the spinal cord, dorsal root ganglia, sciatic nerve and peripheral nerves innervating skin.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
These nasty, bloodsucking parasites glom on to you when you least suspect it.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2023
It’s an apt curtain raiser for a 1994-95 season in which newness and sameness glom together indistinguishably, but “thirtysomething” glistened from its inception with a seductive uniqueness that this latest series does not initially share.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
She says it’s because I’m “the right person for the job,” but I know she’s just trying to glom off my reputation as the main guy behind the paper chain project.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Soon after the memes started making the rounds on Sunday, other politicians glommed on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
“I immediately glommed onto Dawn because I’ve had that internal experience.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
It glommed on to certain artists and denounced others.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2024
Subtle shifts in the spacecraft’s radio communications with Earth will let researchers map the asteroid’s gravity field, which will reveal whether Psyche is a uniformly dense hunk of metal or glommed together from rubble.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 13, 2023
"Never mind w'ere I glommed it, Scully," was the retort.
From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins
Wall Street is glomming on to yet another acronym inspired in part by Mexican cuisine.
From MarketWatch ● May 9, 2026
It is alienating, and you wonder what it is, and whether it’s genuine or just a way of publicly glomming on to the perceived grievances and resentments of his supporters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
The pairing of the previous version of the bill, coupled with Newsom's puzzling Skittles example led to the internet glomming onto the rainbow candies as a prized, yet incorrect, example.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2023
Antibodies hamper the virus by glomming onto all those spikes that stick up from it.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2021
“Then you’re not just glomming on. If factories are your subject, how could you not do I. G. Farben.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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