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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
  • Things begin to gel halfway through the season, especially as more aspects of the characters’ personalities and personal lives are revealed.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The early reaction from critics on the Lido has been all over the map, with some raves, some middling scores and some who didn’t gel with the movie — or its leads — at all.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Stop watering when the ground freezes and restart the watering routine in spring once garlic starts to sprout.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Emails included in the lawsuit between Zuckerberg and the company's tech support team date back to May 2020, in which similar account freezes from 2017 are mentioned.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But most recently it has been hit from several sides, most notably stiffening competition primarily from Amazon, off-pricers and membership clubs as well as Walmart and Target.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Lane picked up three on first down, but the Otay Ranch defense stiffened, turning back the next two runs for no gain.
    Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • There was external pressure to shake up the Avs’ DNA after a third-straight early exit from the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but Joe Sakic and Chris MacFarland felt this group — transformed dramatically throughout last season with little time to congeal before the playoffs — deserved another chance.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Storms initiating in eastern Montana are forecast to congeal into a mesoscale convective system and sweep across parts of the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa by Wednesday morning.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
Verb
  • In one study, it was found that the disease triggered the development of sac-like molecules carrying blood-clotting proteins that increased stroke risk.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Some patients' bodies continue to make the clotting gene for years after starting treatment.
    Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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