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as in cluster
a number of things considered as a unit
a clot of daisies occupied one corner of the flower bed
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as in moron
British
a stupid person
was of the opinion that most of the people running for parliament were clots
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as in to block
to prevent passage through by filling with something
phone lines clotted by Internet traffic
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as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
scabs form over cuts when your blood starts to clot
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Recent Examples of clot
Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 19 Oct. 2024
If an artery in your heart is occluded by a clot, pain may be felt in distant places such as your neck and your arm.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Erin Edwards, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2024
Leukemia bruises may last longer because the body is not able to clot the blood.
—Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
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Noun
This is important because infection can potentially interfere with the protective clot formation and may also break down the clot and cause dry socket.7
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—Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 19 Oct. 2024
If an artery in your heart is occluded by a clot, pain may be felt in distant places such as your neck and your arm.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Verb
At the hospital, she was given fluids, a clotting drug and a transfusion, but her bleeding continued.
—Erin Edwards, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2024
Leukemia bruises may last longer because the body is not able to clot the blood.
—Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clot
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In addition, people who develop type 2 diabetes are more likely to have a cluster of factors, including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and abdominal adiposity (excess fat in the abdomen).5 Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms Type 2 diabetes develops gradually.—
Carisa Brewster,
Verywell Health,
14 Jan. 2025
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Roatán Island is part of a cluster of island archipelagos 10 to 40 miles off the northern coast of Honduras.—
Gary Stoller,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Clumped salt can usually be revived by breaking up the clumps.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
9 Jan. 2025
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The pistons, belts, and pulleys create the ambience of an engine room on a steamship, as clumps of fiber are separated and realigned into uniform fabric.—
Shane C Kurup,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Dec. 2024
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On Tuesday, their efforts paid off when Judge Cannon issued a surprising injunction blocking the report from coming out until the appeals court made its own decision on how to proceed.—
Alan Feuer,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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Those exiting the library parking lot and heading east face a similar challenge, with their left-turn lane now also blocked by a traffic island.—
Janice Phelan,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2025
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The aesthetic is impeccable but my brain did not gel at all with its tough puzzles.—
Kris Holt,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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The trailer starts, as always, in better times, when the group gelled and all got along.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2024
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Here's how the system works … The user starts by placing a batch of Plant Pods (sold in packs of 15) inside the main Plantaform device.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Jan. 2025
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Adidas made $437 million from the first batch of its Yeezy shoes released after severing ties with West, some of which benefited organizations including the Anti-Defamation League and a non-profit founded by George Floyd’s brother.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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That’s a problem because interest is already swallowing up a greater chunk of the annual federal budget than defense spending.—
Matt Egan,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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Further rummaging yielded a second chunk of rock that seemed to fit right in front of the first, like a face.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
Verb
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In the 2020 election case, brought in Washington, D.C., Trump faced four charges, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.—
Robert Legare,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2025
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The second part of the report, related to allegations that Trump unlawfully held onto classified documents after the end of his first term in 2021 and obstructed the Justice Department's investigation, was not released.—
John Mac Ghlionn,
Newsweek,
14 Jan. 2025
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Antonio ended up in intensive care at Dell’s Children's Medical Center and was gaunt, his blood coagulating.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American-Statesman,
24 Nov. 2024
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As a preventative course of treatment, people with the blood disorder receive weekly injections of factor IX to enable their blood to coagulate, said GOSH.—
Julia O'Driscoll, The Week UK,
theweek,
27 June 2024
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“Clot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clot. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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