Noun There is a clump of bushes at the edge of the field. I could hear the clump of his footsteps as he came down the stairs. Verb The virus clumps the cells together. a child clumping around the house in her father's oversized boots
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This embryo loss typically occurs in the first two months after fertilization, before the clump of cells has developed into a fetus with immature forms of the body’s major organs. Kathryn Kavanagh, The Conversation, 1 Sep. 2022 And that clump of inflamed tissue is a myofascial trigger point. Zachary Gillen, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022 Cleaning the tool was made simple due to the rubber bristles attracting the hair into a large clump, so it could be easily extracted from the broom. Alyssa Brascia, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2022 The collection covers more than 700 games dating back to Super Nintendo's US launch in 1991, when the internet was young and the mighty Mario was just a tiny clump of pixels. Aj Willingham, CNN, 15 July 2022 Dan Mann hands me a clump of orange dirt the size of an almond. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2022 For some, there’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of digging out a large clump of gooey ear wax. Korin Miller, SELF, 24 June 2022 At Nest 233, Michael Rickershauser, the other assistant, finds only a clump of decaying white fluff. Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022 Thanks to Daisy Ridley, primarily, director and co-writer J.J. Abrams’ safety-first approach to rounding out this clump of Disney’s crucial income stream retains something like a human pulse.Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2022
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Platelets normally act to clump together to form blood clots and prevent blood loss following injury. Russell Foster, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 Powders can also be a bit messy to pour directly into the detergent dispenser and if not stored correctly can clump when exposed to moisture. Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 13 July 2022 Nothing happens immediately, giving the cat a chance to scratch and leave, and the litter some time to clump. Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 12 July 2022 The rigid red blood cells clump together, causing blockages in blood flow that lead to chronic anemia, episodic pain crises, and widespread organ damage. Wunmi Bakare, Essence, 17 June 2022 In such cases, even DWR-treated down tends to clump; garments using it will lose their ability to insulate. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 6 June 2020 Working together, Orr and Zoghbi found that repeat expansions make proteins misfold and clump together in cerebellar neurons, eventually leading to death. Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 3 June 2022 These galaxies clump together in dense clusters joined by wispy filaments and separated by enormous voids hundreds of millions of light-years across. Ben Brubaker, Scientific American, 4 May 2022 And where there’s a little bit more hydrogen gas, that gas will have a slightly higher gravitational field and will cause the gas to clump together.Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022 See More