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as in to freeze
to become physically firm or solid
the surface of the pond congealed after several days of frigid temperatures
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as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
the gravy had already started to congeal by the time the waiter served our dinners
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Recent Examples of congeal
Everyone loves bacon, after all, but absolutely no one wants shiny slicks of fat congealing at the top of their drink.
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2024
The story will begin to congeal when everyone agrees that this is what happened—a first draft, which then, in the hands of a journalist, becomes a second one.
—Elliot Ackerman, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2024
As with many siblings, misunderstandings have congealed into bad blood.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
Nothing about this season has been consistent except for the laundry list of obstacles Curry and his teammates have to address while trying to congeal as a team.
—Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2024
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2024
The story will begin to congeal when everyone agrees that this is what happened—a first draft, which then, in the hands of a journalist, becomes a second one.
—Elliot Ackerman, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2024
As with many siblings, misunderstandings have congealed into bad blood.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
Nothing about this season has been consistent except for the laundry list of obstacles Curry and his teammates have to address while trying to congeal as a team.
—Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for congeal
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The dough also freezes very well for up to 3 months. 3.The View, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
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Monday and Tuesday mornings northwest of I-4 may see temperatures drop below freezing.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
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But there are a couple other obvious reasons Miyagi-Do is flopping, one of which Sam and Devon can immediately diagnose: Johnny and Daniel are not gelling.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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Do some team members gel better with your EA than others?Kenzie Biggins, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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The unequal recovery since the Great Recession and frustration that costly college degrees haven’t always yielded meaningful returns have only hardened those attitudes.Maria Flynn, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Since 2020, the nation’s electoral apparatus has upgraded its equipment, tightened its procedures, improved its audits, and hardened its defenses against subversion by bad actors, foreign or domestic.Barton Gellman, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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In Electric mode, at the halfway point of throttle pedal travel the action stiffens.Mark Ewing, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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The same law that stiffened ID on in-person voting stiffened ID requirements for getting absentee ballots, and eliminated in-person early voting the Monday before an election.Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
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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
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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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Eric liked the idea of collaborating with others, but his collaborations never really jelled.Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Afterwards, the running back spoke about how the team has jelled in recent weeks.Ben Morse, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Congeal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congeal. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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