thickened

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Since that incident, Gen Bewick says Akrotiri's air defences have been "thickened".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

What’s different now is that artificial intelligence has thickened the plot.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

On many tracks, he crafts a thickened variation on Bob Dylan’s wild mercury sound, with gurgling organ, touches of strings and horns, and evocative swells of pedal-steel guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

"This thickened, heated crust may have made the region mechanically weaker, so that the plate boundary preferentially shifted here," explains co-author PD Dr. Jörg Geldmacher, marine geologist at GEOMAR.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Their friendship grew stronger, like a rope that thickened little by little.

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead