as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
the blood coagulated, and a scab formed on the wound
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Recent Examples of coagulate
Do not use warm or hot water since this can actually cause the blood to coagulate.
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Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2026
For many of the protesters, a general sense of lawlessness – not supported by official crime figures for England and Wales, which broadly show a decrease over the past decade – had coagulated into a specific fear of migrants.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Researchers tasted the first trials of ant yogurt, where the milk had begun to coagulate and acidify, which are signs of early yogurt fermentation.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
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Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2026
For many of the protesters, a general sense of lawlessness – not supported by official crime figures for England and Wales, which broadly show a decrease over the past decade – had coagulated into a specific fear of migrants.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Researchers tasted the first trials of ant yogurt, where the milk had begun to coagulate and acidify, which are signs of early yogurt fermentation.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coagulate
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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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The harder question, raised again and again at the conference, is how to write sensible rules without freezing the experimentation that makes the technology worth having.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Cover tightly with plastic wrap and freeze at least 6 hours (or up to 7 days).—
Katlyn Moncada,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 June 2026
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To execute its ruthless 66-pound weight loss program, the rear seats have been completely deleted, replaced by a massive structural strut brace that significantly stiffens the chassis.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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Nicks on the edge or stiffened, curled rubber will leave streaks.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
12 June 2026
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The career that has followed has been the rare one that survived a child-star debut without ever congealing into the obvious next thing.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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Since then, speculation has congealed into reality.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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Before freezing, blanching the potatoes gelatinizes surface starches, and freezing encourages those starches to reorganize into a firmer structure.—
Anne Wolf,
Martha Stewart,
8 Feb. 2026
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Starches swell with heat and water, gelatinizing to give dough its airy lift.—
Sanjay Srivastava,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Subsequent laboratory tests confirmed extensive disruption of the clotting system, which reflects just how powerful the procoagulant toxins present within the venom are.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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The discovery of vitamin K and its role in clotting blood won the Nobel Prize in 1943.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
12 June 2026
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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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