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Recent Examples of coagulate That familiar lump of expectation coagulated in my stomach and throat. Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025 Hope needs to find hope and coagulate into a giant hope. Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025 Still, blood’s habit of coagulating, so useful in the body, proved a challenge outside of it: within a few minutes of beginning a transfusion, clots would gum up the needles and tubes, seriously limiting the quantity of blood that could be moved from person to person. Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless. John Carreyrou, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coagulate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coagulate
Verb
  • Blashill opened his first training camp as Blackhawks coach hoping Bedard, Burakovsky and Ryan Donato would gel as a line.
    Scott Powers, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Biadasz came to the Commanders last year after spending his first four years with the Dallas Cowboys, so the veteran center and rookie quarterback had to get to work quickly in order to gel with each other.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The wrongful murder conviction, now vacated, had kept him in state custody for decades, effectively freezing that process.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Damascus called it separatist theater and froze the Paris track.
    Hassan Hassan, Time, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For every mention of the Chicago Bulls’ trek toward toughness, of their hopes to stiffen the chests in the building and ignite a defensive revamp, Okoro has been the footnote.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • McDaniel made the point that the Dolphins’ defensive line and run defense stiffened somewhat after struggling badly on the first drive.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While the rest of Burning Man celebrated, Kruglov lay prostrate on the ground at a faraway campsite in a comparatively desolate section of Black Rock City, his throat slashed, as a puddle of blood congealed around his lifeless body.
    Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Might the thrill of their ambition congeal into something like obligation?
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Starches swell with heat and water, gelatinizing to give dough its airy lift.
    Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Voskuhl stresses that women need to be screened for contraindications such as breast cancer, clotting disorders or cardiovascular disease.
    Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Blood is always poised and ready to clot, because the body sees this as a life-saving mechanism.
    Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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