thicken
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His shredding effect on electric guitar and multi-tracking to thicken his instrument’s sound dominate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
From next year's contest, the backing track may not "unduly assist" the singer or singers on stage, for example by including a pre-recorded voice singing the main melody to thicken or support the live performance.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The technique here is simple: Roast the berries until their juices thicken, chill them completely, then blend with yogurt and buttermilk until smooth.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
But forecasters at the National Weather Service warned the smoke may thicken overnight into Saturday morning.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
In midaftemoon, the clouds pulled up their tatters and started to thicken.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
A mysterious discovery thickens the plot—were the Olympic Games invented by women?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
When stirred through at the end, it thickens the tomato juices into something cohesive — salty, tangy, faintly luxurious.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
Few writers since Henry James can create an atmosphere of doubt around events and character as effectively as this author does, and in “Venetian Vespers” the miasma thickens at every turn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Over time, the valve thickens and stiffens, making the heart work harder to pump blood effectively around the body.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
I begin to panic as the smoke thickens.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
They also work at a low frequency and are able to penetrate buildings and elevators and particularly hospitals - which can have thickened walls to protect people from X-rays and other radiation.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Each layer thickened the regulatory side of the law, but without strengthening the liberal one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
When the sleepiest central bank on Earth becomes the one that matters, the plot has thickened.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Add 2 cups water or broth and simmer for 5 minutes, until slightly thickened and stew-like.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
As evening thickened and lights were turned on, you could see inside where large mirrors hung on ivory-white walls and long curtains framed polished wood tables.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
On a humbler scale, Kail poetically marks the passage of time with a thickening palm tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
That uplift helped support additional thickening of coastal ice.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
For hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—the thickening of heart muscles—it was 56 steps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
"Symptoms like thickening and laxity of the skin, so-called 'elephant skin', extreme shedding and sharply defined areas of redness next to normal skin."
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
The world’s wind had been sinking, and the driving sleet of the storm had given way to a chill, ragged, thickening mist.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
