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Recent Examples of glom The slivers glommed together and built up the continental margin. Alexandra Witze, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2025 Then there’s Trish’s Aunt Carol (Anastacia McCleskey), who is mayoral campaign manager for Raymond Demarest (Erich Bergen), a sleaze who gloms onto Betty’s popularity once her identity is revealed. Frank Rizzo, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025 The way that Pliny saw it, astrology was small-minded fatalism, in which people glommed onto meaningless symbols for a sense of identity. Maya Layne, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025 Who are the types of people who are glomming on to this manifesto? Hady Mawajdeh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 See All Example Sentences for glom
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Verb
  • The ball popped up in the air and Bolton was there to grab it, except he was hit by teammate Drue Tranquill.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Sasaki was the necessary answer on Monday night, coming in to secure the final out and avoid disaster as Freddie Freeman sprawled out to grab Tommy Edman’s final throw to first base.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the skit, a camera catches fans at a game dancing and cuts to the two who dump their popcorns, do the robot and then turn back-to-back and pose.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Will Shipley would be more of the pass-catching value, and Dillon the early-down and goal-line option, not to say both can’t do both things — hence, the hot hand (and hence for the second time).
    Jake Ciely, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • In a TikTok video, the woman shared the moment when her dog, a cocker spaniel named Tiki, jumped up and snatched her burger right out of her hand.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That will further snatch sales from November and December.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • The man reported to the Sheriff’s Office he had been scammed; the Sheriff’s Office then obtained a warrant and seized $14,120 from the ATM.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Failing to seize the narrative, the authorities shifted course and began erasing the record from public memory.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The goal is to get a congress of 15, with at least eight members coming from Cincinnati's homeless shelters and seven representing people who live outdoors or in temporary housing.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Jonathan Taylor got the three touchdowns but was hardly explosive on a down-to-down basis.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Glom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glom. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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