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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for coagulate
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  • Between Clark missing quite a bit of time due to two separate injury issues and the team simply not gelling well together, the 2025 WNBA season has been a rollercoaster so far.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
  • Playing in the Club World Cup means Chelsea will not get a proper pre-season, so gelling the squad as early as possible is particularly important this year.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 4 July 2025
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  • Eat burritos warm or wrap individually in parchment paper, place in a zipper bag and freeze for up to two months.
    Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 19 July 2025
  • Maple taffy: Made by boiling and freezing maple syrup on snow or ice to create a chewy candy, maple taffy is best eaten fresh, but it can be frozen for up to two months.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 19 July 2025
Verb
  • The whole squad has put up an impressive 18 scores in four tourney matches, though competition now stiffens for single elimination.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • My forehead stiffened and went numb, like it was made of concrete that had suddenly set.
    Sarah Miller, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
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  • Conditions like silent high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, or clotting disorders can also go undetected in people who appear otherwise healthy.
    Taayoo Murray, Essence, 27 May 2025
  • Bleeding disorders Heavy bleeding during a period could be a sign of a bleeding disorder such as immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), which prevents blood from clotting properly.
    Ashley Abramson, SELF, 7 May 2025

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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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