thickened
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Add 2 cups water or broth and simmer for 5 minutes, until slightly thickened and stew-like.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
What’s different now is that artificial intelligence has thickened the plot.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 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
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
He started running again, toward the shot, but the crowd thickened in front of him.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
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