thickened

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Titania's surface features may therefore reflect a cycle in which the ice shell first thinned and later thickened again.

From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 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

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

Rich broth thickened with bread, dusted with paprika, spiked with bits of cured ham, with a poached egg to mix in.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

He raised his sword, and the dark clouds thickened over the river.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan