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Recent Examples of thicken
The former causes the heart muscle to thicken and struggle to pump blood.
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Kelly Davis, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
Greek yogurt can increase the nutritional value of foods like dips, smoothies, and sauces while thickening their texture.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Health, 29 Oct. 2024
Most of those work by either thickening the cervical mucus so sperm can't get to the uterus or stopping ovulation or making it so the sperm can't swim.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024
Coffees are mixed with fruit juice, scented with flowers, and thickened with rice and even cheese.
—Eunice Yoon, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
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Kelly Davis, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
Greek yogurt can increase the nutritional value of foods like dips, smoothies, and sauces while thickening their texture.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Health, 29 Oct. 2024
Most of those work by either thickening the cervical mucus so sperm can't get to the uterus or stopping ovulation or making it so the sperm can't swim.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024
Coffees are mixed with fruit juice, scented with flowers, and thickened with rice and even cheese.
—Eunice Yoon, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicken
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In Electric mode, at the halfway point of throttle pedal travel the action stiffens.Mark Ewing, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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The same law that stiffened ID on in-person voting stiffened ID requirements for getting absentee ballots, and eliminated in-person early voting the Monday before an election.Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
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This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
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The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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The unequal recovery since the Great Recession and frustration that costly college degrees haven’t always yielded meaningful returns have only hardened those attitudes.Maria Flynn, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Since 2020, the nation’s electoral apparatus has upgraded its equipment, tightened its procedures, improved its audits, and hardened its defenses against subversion by bad actors, foreign or domestic.Barton Gellman, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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The dough also freezes very well for up to 3 months. 3.The View, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
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To prolong the life of your leftovers, consider freezing them.Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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The recording process spanned three years as the then-burgeoning musician shaped and solidified its 14-song track list.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
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This move has further solidified Binance as a trusted entity among seasoned crypto investors.Jon Stojan, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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But that enthusiasm was soon overtaken by anxiety that curdled into crushing despair.Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
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Last time, the official messaging post-shooting had been about unity and love—even if those themes curdled into the usual tropes by the end of Trump’s Convention speech.Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024
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As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its record 18 wins at the Emmy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater in September, Japanese director Takeshi Fukunaga was caked in mud and sweat in a small village on Hokkaido.Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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The unit was caked in grime that had accumulated over a significant amount of time, though what killed them was not immediately clear.Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Thicken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicken. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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