glom
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AGEs arise when blood sugar is poorly controlled and elevated levels of sugar molecules known as glucose begin to glom onto nearby proteins including collagen -- a key structural component of the extracellular matrix.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024
Mind you, the Sinclair interview may have been a bridge too far even for those who ordinarily glom on to free-thinkers who are "just asking questions."
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
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
Sure, some immature viewers might have glommed onto the edgy comedy of yesteryear.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Villarreal: The way people like glommed onto it, like it was all over TikTok with captions like, “This is me in my kitchen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
Although it, too, contained these microspheres, they had glommed together into clumps of uneven size.
From Science Magazine ● May 21, 2024
It glommed on to certain artists and denounced others.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2024
Brad glommed him glumly in the gloaming, with more than a glimmer of gloomy foreboding.
From The Sloths of Kruvny by Vern Fearing
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
I think that Paxton’s move is definitely glomming on to the headline grabbing that Elon Musk has done.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2022
White pulled out trays of ground oyster shell on which tiny oysters “set” this foot, glomming on to the hard surface with a kind of natural glue, much as they would in the wild.
From Scientific American ● May 7, 2022
But his narrowed eyes bounce off me, glomming on to something beyond.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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