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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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  • While the action, characters, and comedy do ultimately gel by the end, viewers will likely have to wait for a season 2 to see Murderbot reach its killer potential.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 May 2025
  • The touring band gelled quickly, with the trio putting a new spin upon the tracks live on stage each night, releasing their debut album Live Flowers as mssv (main steam stop valve) later that year.
    Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
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  • As the Trump administration freezes and slashes billions of dollars in research funding, meddles with curricula, and threatens international students’ ability to study in the US, governments, universities and research institutions in Canada, Europe and Asia are racing to attract fleeing talent.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 1 June 2025
  • In parallel, the Trump administration has reportedly frozen more than $2 billion in research grants to elite universities, including Harvard, citing alleged violations of federal directives related to antisemitism and national security, NPR reported.
    Michelle Mbekeani, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Verb
  • The schedule stiffens considerably over the back half of the season.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2025
  • Lucy’s Law, among other things, stiffens the penalties for seriously injuring someone in a boat crash.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
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  • The storms are expected to congeal into lines of storms, with damaging winds of 60 to 70 mph.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2025
  • Over time, these criticisms congeal into narratives.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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  • The pictures captured the lifeless water full of debris and silt, stagnant, clotted and scabbed with rubbish.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • These proteins, called clotting factors, need vitamin K to function.
    Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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