thickened
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When the sleepiest central bank on Earth becomes the one that matters, the plot has thickened.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 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
These included a mastectomy and lymph node procedure performed in 28 minutes, and an excision of benign thickened breast tissue in 10 minutes, "which the review team considered to have been unnecessary".
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Night thickened about the hunter and the hunted, and snow blew fine across the path that Ged could no longer see.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
