glom onto

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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

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

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

Now that we've got Dan out of the way," the district attorney pattered on, "we've got to glom onto Bill Wingo, and the sooner the quicker.

From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson