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
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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coagulate
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The redshirt senior entered spring practices already having the playbook essentially memorized and gelled with the rest of his offensive linemen almost immediately.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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That’s actually worked out really well so far as the unlikely duo has gelled quite nicely and Flair is arguably more over as a babyface than she’s ever been.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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Progressives tout rent freezes as a solution to our housing crisis.—
Ben Proto,
Hartford Courant,
12 Aug. 2025
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So far, Walker has issued mixed rulings in the case, freezing some portions of the law but allowing other parts to go into effect, even as the campaigns try to gather enough signatures from voters to qualify for the 2026 ballot.—
Kate Payne,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Aug. 2025
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The sounds capture tiny mechanical vibrations, sometimes caused by stiffening arteries or narrowing heart vessels, that can indicate the early onset of disease.—
Carla Mendez,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
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That combination of scarcity and desirability stiffens competition and drives up prices, DeJohn says.—
Talia Wexler,
CNBC,
30 July 2025
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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
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The presumption that this administration was indirectly responsible for the deaths in Texas soon congealed into a consensus in online forums.—
The Editors,
National Review,
7 July 2025
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The kidney’s main vein remains clotted off from the torsion.—
Maddie Carr,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2025
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For months after giving birth, women are still at risk for a range of life-threatening, post-pregnancy complications, including heart conditions, clotting disorders, postpartum depression and more.—
Molly Beck,
jsonline.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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