coagulate

GMO microbial rennet produces a specific enzyme called chymosin, which helps coagulate milk and form curds.

From Salon ● May 9, 2023

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

In the early 2000s, the Washington Aqueduct came under fire again for releasing high amounts of alum, a substance used to coagulate sediments to filter them from the water, into the Potomac River.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2022

After suctioning the mucus from my nostrils, she gave me a shot of vitamin K to coagulate my blood.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Biacuplasty coagulates the nerves in the discs, he says, and there’s a chance it may even help heal fissures or cracks in degenerated discs.

From US News ● Sep. 20, 2016

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

Baken and Baitz’s previous effort coagulated into some sorta cultural critique about the nation going to Hell, while “All’s Fair” celebrates some of the people sending us there in a shameless parade of gaudy excess.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

In the United States, the game show “Fear Factor” challenged contestants to eat foods with ingredients like fish eyes, cow bile and coagulated blood paste.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

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

Instead, they are coagulated and sit clumpy in my mouth.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2017

Presently, some sort of fish was served to me on a plate with a small but noticeable trace of coagulated catsup along the border.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

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

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025

The Ohio Republican dipped an unjacketed shoulder through the coagulating throng and attempted to push through.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

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

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

Mack glanced at the burned curtains, at the floor glistening with whiskey and puppy dirt, at the bacon grease that was coagulating on the stove front.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck