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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
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
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
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
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Elon Musk, previously a longtime Signal fan, glommed onto Rufo’s posts to allude to “known vulnerabilities with Signal,” in a tweet that saw him get corrected by his own beloved Community Notes feature.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2025
Soon after the memes started making the rounds on Sunday, other politicians glommed on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
Although it, too, contained these microspheres, they had glommed together into clumps of uneven size.
From Science Magazine ● May 21, 2024
But the latest generation has definitely glommed onto and revived some of the most deplorable, if I may use that word, beliefs from the past.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2024
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
Instead gravity alone is this invisible substance’s master—meaning that in mere moments after the big bang, when primordial chaos otherwise reigned, gravity immediately began glomming together dark matter into large clumps known as halos.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2022
Antibodies hamper the virus by glomming onto all those spikes that stick up from it.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2021
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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