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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
Dr. Jonathan Reichental, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Uskiwich suffered strokes on May 21 and May 22, requiring emergency surgery to remove a clot from her brain.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026
Charlotte Observer, 12 May 2026
The parking lot was clotted with Porsches, Range Rovers, and a Ferrari.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
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Noun
In one particular approach called a mechanical thrombectomy, a device inserted into the body is used to suck out the clot.
—Dr. Jonathan Reichental, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Uskiwich suffered strokes on May 21 and May 22, requiring emergency surgery to remove a clot from her brain.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026
Verb
It may be needed if a pet’s ability to clot blood is compromised.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 May 2026
The parking lot was clotted with Porsches, Range Rovers, and a Ferrari.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clot
Noun
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After dark on Thursday, Venus will be close to the Beehive Cluster — an open cluster of 100 stars — with binoculars allowing both to be seen in the same field of view.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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Families, friend groups and couples are huddled in clusters, scrolling on phones or taking pictures of the Italian restaurant’s red signage that boasts a history dating to 1956.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2026
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The model of shuffling that the new result depends on, like Bayer and Diaconis’ before it, still assumes that the cards riffle down one by one, rather than in clumps.—
John Pavlus,
Quanta Magazine,
17 June 2026
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The envelopes of material around these infant stars eventually form clumps that gather more and more mass to become planets.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 June 2026
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Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.—
Colm Tóibín,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
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This drunk moron — quite different from his character in the novel — bears a ton of blame.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The group sued to block the probe, alleging the agency was violating its First Amendment rights.—
Devi Shastri,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
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Tierney got another look shortly thereafter that was blocked by Ounahi.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
20 June 2026
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Any apprehensions about whether a first-time collaboration between Hartford’s two largest self-producing theaters — Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford — could gel smoothly enough to grasp all the nuances of this challenging work are dispelled immediately by the opening number.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
16 June 2026
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Formed in London in 1981, Culture Club’s first batch of songs came easily thanks to how well the members gelled, as Moss recalls in the clip from Boy George & Culture Club.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
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This batch of grants is the eighth round of the program to date.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2026
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Vulcan had previously been lined up to have already sent up its first Amazon Leo batch.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 June 2026
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And now, to MLB's chagrin, this uniform issue has bled over to a not-small chunk of the American public.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2026
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None of they key players went in colder than Tudisco, whose deceptively warm performance as sometimes-mobster Mike Santini holds a large chunk of the show together.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
16 June 2026
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My dad has always said the lottery is a tax on the stupid.—
Alex Crippen,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2026
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The scale of the headloss was best summed up by Luis Suarez attempting to reason with Messi, before the Argentine did anything on the Suarez scale of stupid.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Clot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clot. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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