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Recent Examples of congeal 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 But a match that leaves the crowd cold will congeal before your eyes. James Parker, The Atlantic, 6 July 2025 In the adjacent living room, the remains of a lobster dinner were congealing. Timothy Crouse, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2025 Especially with The Minecraft Movie congealing at the two-month mark. Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for congeal
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Verb
  • Prosecutors accused Read of backing up into O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of a Canton home where the pair was supposed to continue a night out after the bars closed that cold, snowy early January morning.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Using an ice chamber, the team froze mixtures of water, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia to a bone-chilling –420 degrees Fahrenheit (-253 degrees Celsius), mimicking frigid conditions near the moon's surface.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Roger Hodgson, a posh young guitarist whose post-private school rearing clashed with Davies' own humble origins, wound up gelling with Davies, and Supertramp was born — after a few months under the moniker of Daddy.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Trotter reenergized the label with her quietly sensual designs in tune with Madame Carven’s fondness for simple constructions and clean lines — and her focus on textures would gel with Bottega Veneta and her predecessor’s work at the brand.
    WWD Staff, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The seafloor within the rings around the barrels had hardened like concrete, preventing them from collecting samples with a coring device that would be inserted into the seafloor.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In analysis sent to Newsweek, global risk firm RANE said the incident could accelerate NATO's air defense integration and harden its posture toward Russia.
    Brendan Cole John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yet that comes as experts say competition among convenience stores is stiffening.
    Natalie Rice, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Despite herself, Cali stiffened.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Within hours the pool would coagulate into electric-blue slush, like a gas station Slurpee.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • Everything just kind of jelled together the right way.
    Gary Curreri, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2025
  • The team will then break for six weeks before returning for training camp in late July, at which point Maye and the rest of the offense will have weeks to continue jelling before the season begins.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 9 June 2025

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“Congeal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congeal. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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