thickened

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Since that incident, Gen Bewick says Akrotiri's air defences have been "thickened".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 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

Children who are obese or overweight from an early age have stiffer arteries and thickened arterial lining at 11 to 12 years, with a high risk of later heart disease, type 2 diabetes or stroke.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

They dragged white smoke threads that thickened into clouds before disappearing.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat