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Recent Examples of coagulate 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 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 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 See All Example Sentences for coagulate
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Verb
  • One night our fifth grade son’s slightly spastic basketball team suddenly gelled.
    Drew Ramsey, CNBC, 14 May 2025
  • So far, however, Mantzoukas’s high energy is gelling well with the show’s competitive bent.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • The gargantuan geoengineering project would require half a million underwater drones to pull water from below the melting ice cap and spray it onto the surface to freeze.
    Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
  • Barkov started to slide the puck between his legs, freezing Raanta for a potential flip toward the net.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • Lucy’s Law, among other things, stiffens the penalties for seriously injuring someone in a boat crash.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
  • Posture And Mobility: Undoing The Sedentary Spiral Extended sitting does more than stiffen your spine.
    Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Over time, these criticisms congeal into narratives.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Maybe William Gibson, who was of course a kick in the ass for the whole genre, but who came along after my own voice had pretty much congealed.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • These proteins, called clotting factors, need vitamin K to function.
    Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Treatments like clotting factor infusions help blood clot better, and new advances, such as gene therapy, are improving care.
    Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2025

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