coagulate

But anger, irritation and a fear of imminent defeat can coagulate in ways individuals often can't control.

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

“I’m very smart. I’m a mathematician by hobby. I coagulate differences between America and other countries. I understand things about the Mafia and simple daily living.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

Working quickly ensures that the cheese doesn't have time to coagulate on the bottom of the pan and the pasta water doesn't lose its heat.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2021

Instead of approaching R&B as a bold exteriorization of the soul, her songs tiptoe inward, toward those quicksand corners of the brain where vivid feelings struggle to coagulate into coherent thoughts.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

The bump on my forehead was swollen and I stopped the bleeding by lying still and letting it coagulate, then picked away the dried blood except over the cut.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

“What we are seeing is due to reentry of material—a mixture of burned-up meteors and spacecraft, which slowly coagulates to form particles that settle through the atmosphere,” he says.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023

But perhaps their unique feature is how their blood, which is bright blue, coagulates when exposed to harmful bacterial endotoxins, a feature that has kept them alive for about 450 million years.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

Gelatin sets on cooling because the hot aqueous mixture of gelatin coagulates as it cools, yielding an extremely viscous body known as a gel.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Unfortunately, as Ms Yazji’s plot thickens, it coagulates.

From Economist ● Dec. 4, 2017

Criminologists had come to understand that blood coagulates at the lowest point of a body after death, producing dark splotches on the skin.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Cream-based dips can get coagulated in the heat and stiff in the cold, especially if you don’t have a portable heating device, so a neutral mixed bean dip is definitely the way to go.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025

There the crowd coagulated, like at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, awaiting selfie turns.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

But tofu can also harbor some residual whey, a byproduct of when soy milk is coagulated so it turns into curds.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022

At Klowden Mann Gallery, the Chicago-based artist’s solo L.A. debut has trees aflame in dark and coagulated landscapes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2019

“You’ve coagulated, Mr. Hoodhood,” Mrs. Baker said, which I think is a Caliban curse that I missed.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

He’ll certainly do the same thing about the blood coagulating at the bottom of his body.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025

Indeed, Yang was surprised to learn that so many had abandoned the pressing step, largely because commodity-manufactured tofu — made by coagulating soy milk then curling it on the tray — is saturated with liquid.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2022

“If you think about it, it’s more similar to a dairy product because it’s made from coagulating soy milk.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2022

How does the endothelium of the blood vessel walls prevent the blood from coagulating as it flows through the blood vessels?

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The plates with pieces of steak ends and coagulating grease were on the floor, on top of the bookcases, under the bed.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck