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glommed

(glɑmd)
mod. arrested. (Underworld.) Wilmer got glommed on a speeding charge. I didn’t even know he could drive.
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The former pizza chain CEO presumably knows as much about finance as my mother, yet in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he has glommed onto yet another simplistic variation of the flat tax idea, in which everyone, no matter how rich or poor, would pay the same percentage of his income.
The false fairness of percentages and percentiles
Not surprisingly to anyone with a pulse, the GOP glommed onto that fact as quickly as it could.
Meet market
Stop getting glommed up in all the bureaucratic machinery, the fear and the institutional dysfunction.
Just do it
Staack and his wife, Helga, both 75, glommed onto the concept on a recent trip to Berlin, when they picked up a pamphlet at Checkpoint Charlie.
HOPEFUL WORDS FOR A NEW YEAR 75-YEAR-OLD WHO WORKED ON APOLLO PROGRAM PUTS PEN TO PAPER, WRITES POEM
Although OEMs and traditional suppliers have glommed onto the SEMA phenomenon, for many of these organizations it is nothing more than a superficial exercise, not one deeply integrated into the way they develop and produce products.
Unconventional innovation
When placed together in a solution, the corresponding DNA strands glommed onto each other, resulting in a dumbbell-shape particle that could find and tag cancer ceils.
Tiny tinkertoys
It's the tendency we all have to be glommed on to a number that's presented to us," says John Allen Paulos, a Temple University math professor who designed a statistics course for the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Follow the stat: a much-criticized Time magazine estimate of the number of people who enter the country illegally takes on a life of its own
Too often cities appear to have been glommed to the point of appearing almost accidental--and often withered in obsolescence as a result.
LTI seminar topic: creating the 'intentional city"
It's not something I glommed on to because my numbers never got out of the single digits.
COLUMNIST DISCUSSES HER CALIFORNIA RACE
It's funny to me that little girls have glommed on to the show so much.
The POPULAR KIDS
When the media glommed onto that fact, Piper was off on a whirlwind that included an appearance on Good Morning America and nationwide newspaper coverage.
Flower power
Now that Clinton has glommed onto the national conversation, it won't just dissipate through the airwaves over time.
Yackety-yak about race
Thus far, it's been as an after-market process - no major manufacturer has glommed onto it, yet.
Ammo makers offer more choices, higher performance and unique packaging
Using this lattice light-sheet microscope, the scientists were able to watch as a cancer cell navigated through a sticky thicket of protein and as an immune cell (shown in orange) stretched out and glommed on to another cell (blue-green).
Microscope that gives clear view inside cell
Many critics glommed onto new shows with "Comedy's back" abandon, enthusing over half-hours like "Enlisted," "The Crazy Ones," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "About a Boy.
Sitcoms under siege: networks are turning to drama, reality and football to fill their skeds, as comedy increasingly becomes a niche proposition
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