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
Marie panics, her mother bursts inside to see what's going on… and Marie's blood suddenly coagulates into a sharp point and soars through the air, slitting her mother's throat.
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Alex Raiman, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2023
Then they are allowed to coagulate, before being pressed into shape.
—Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
Scientists have proven the blood of salmon in pre-spawn phases coagulates almost immediately.
—Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
Fish scientists agree the blood of a salmon in the pre-spawning phase coagulates almost instantaneously.
—Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
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Alex Raiman, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2023
Then they are allowed to coagulate, before being pressed into shape.
—Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
Scientists have proven the blood of salmon in pre-spawn phases coagulates almost immediately.
—Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
Fish scientists agree the blood of a salmon in the pre-spawning phase coagulates almost instantaneously.
—Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
See all Example Sentences for coagulate
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Despite having solid individual contributors, this team never gelled.Todd Boss, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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There may be a period of adjustment before Smith Rowe gels with his team-mates.Alex Brodie, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
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This includes both the monthly and daily normals of precipitation, temperature, snowfall, heating and cooling degree days, growing-degree days, as well as frost and freeze dates spanning across close to 15,000 different observation sites.Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Temperatures in the Midwest and Great Lakes region in December usually sit around 30 degrees F on average, meaning that weather will likely be above freezing on Christmas Day.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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After this revelation, competition began to stiffen, and in 2012 the Ecke family sold its company to a Dutch agricultural operation, citing global competition and consolidation.Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 29 Nov. 2024
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That’s because, in addition to stiffening smartphone competition, President-elect Donald Trump’s threats of China tariffs could weigh on device sales even more.Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
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Episodes don’t feel like episodes, so much as chunks of one long blob-like thing meant to congeal around the edges of each movie.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2024
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Anti-Chinese sentiment is starting to congeal into concrete pushback.Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022
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At the hospital, she was given fluids, a clotting drug and a transfusion, but her bleeding continued.Erin Edwards, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2024
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Leukemia bruises may last longer because the body is not able to clot the blood.Carrie Madormo, RN, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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