congeal
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Aim for dishes that still taste perfectly fine when eaten lukewarm, that don’t seize up or congeal the moment they cool.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026
"So they stay in one piece, and they gather together with fat, oil, and grease from kitchens, congeal and create a fatberg which causes flooding."
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
And then it doesn’t really begin to congeal or take any shape until we’re in the edit.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
On the desolate battlefronts of southern and eastern Ukraine, the clinging, clay-like mud of late autumn is beginning to congeal into iciness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
After the game, his face would congeal once again.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
By episode 2, it congeals into something like a coherent picture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The paint congeals and my spray paint spits out; it doesn't flow smoothly because it's frozen.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Food is an organic compound: it congeals, runs, discolors and oxidizes over time and because of the conditions in the kitchen you’re shooting in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
“Myanmar Diaries” is the rare work that captures the now of a historical upheaval, pleading to us to pay attention before a brutal present congeals into the past and determines the future.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
The blood congeals into a long, red terrycloth rectangle.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
The queso started fine but eventually congealed into something that approximated lukewarm paste.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
During a seven-nation polar exercise in Canada earlier this year to test equipment worth millions of dollars, the U.S. military’s all-terrain arctic vehicles broke down after 30 minutes because hydraulic fluids congealed in the cold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
The chips were cold, the queso had congealed and the salad arrived limp and sad.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2024
Amid the monstrous heaps of twisted metal, pools of congealed oil and walls pockmarked by shrapnel, one incongruous detail catches my eye.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
I don’t like spaghetti when it’s normal, let alone congealed.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
And multiple stacks of pizza boxes, their cooling, congealing slices triggering Logan into one of the mini-tirades his character is famous for.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023
The Reyes memorial service, and the eulogists’ stories, crystallized a thought that had been congealing around the reporting: So much is unknown.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
Marine snow is anything but stable; as flakes free-fall into the abyss, they are constantly congealing and falling apart, rent by waves or predators.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
These are felicitously doled out, making the book voicey without congealing into shtick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
Mine is empty, the purple remnants of huckleberry shake congealing on the silver spoon.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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