thickened

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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

In both cases, cartilage that had become thin and dysfunctional with age thickened across the joint surface.

From Science Daily • Jan. 20, 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

Smoke thickened the air, making the herbs that hung from the rafters look like dangling carcasses.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi