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

"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

To get older, wiser and have your skin thickened by all the slings and arrows?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

It was such a relief to rest, and the thought of continuing the search was so unwelcome, that we sat on while the gloom thickened and night crept up on us.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya