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These days, a horror film must also be a blistering allegory for real life, with plenty of subtextual significance for the thinking viewer to glom onto.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
In anti-LGI1 encephalitis, the second most common of these diseases after anti-NMDAR encephalitis, autoantibodies glom onto and impede LGI1 protein, which is found in synapses and helps regulate the transmission of electrical signals between neurons.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
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
These nasty, bloodsucking parasites glom on to you when you least suspect it.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 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
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
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
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
Regardless of the effect of glomming on or not, I think at the end of the day, it’s really, really good.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2024
Dust particles collide and stick, gradually glomming together into pebbles and, eventually, planets.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 20, 2020
But his narrowed eyes bounce off me, glomming on to something beyond.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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