glom
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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
This so-called Wiedemann-Franz law has held ever since -- except in quantum materials, where electrons stop behaving as individual particles and glom together into a sort of electron soup.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
These nasty, bloodsucking parasites glom on to you when you least suspect it.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2023
But it’s one thing to glom onto internet success stories and another to create them in-house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
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
Cathy Ames is a complicated symbol, as the countless people who glommed on to Clancy’s case want her to be.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Soon after the memes started making the rounds on Sunday, other politicians glommed on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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
I like him a heap better," he owned frankly, "since I glommed him devouring that letter from Miss Gertrude M. Shannon.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower
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
Dust particles collide and stick, gradually glomming together into pebbles and, eventually, planets.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 20, 2020
Or glomming onto Nick and Leah, so Martin won’t try to talk to me.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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