congeal

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

Yet, Pitt can’t resist quirking up the character in ways that don’t totally congeal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

This can create a fascinating doubling in the sense that there’s the movie in front of you and its layered references, all of which can flow together when they don’t congeal, which alas happens here.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

After saying that I was going to ask a Cavendish machinist to make models of the purines and pyrimidines, I remained silent, waiting for Bragg’s thoughts to congeal.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

By episode 2, it congeals into something like a coherent picture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

To save money they might turn machines off when they are empty - meaning any residue goes bad or congeals in the system.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2021

One pictures 13-year-olds arguing in the lunchroom while the gravy on their mystery meat congeals.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

When passion can’t flow easily into policymaking, it congeals as angry protest, growing wilder and more paranoid.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

The blood congeals into a long, red terrycloth rectangle.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Recommending taking your food recycling bin out every week, he said lining a food caddy meant food waste was less likely to get congealed and sticky.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

The queso started fine but eventually congealed into something that approximated lukewarm paste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

In the Starkadders’ home, breakfast means congealed porridge, and cows are called Feckless, Aimless, Graceless and Pointless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

The chips were cold, the queso had congealed and the salad arrived limp and sad.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2024

My thoughts spun and congealed, and I couldn’t seem to focus on any one thing as I put Yuki back down and started walking again.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

Its sensibility was shaped by a CD Mattingly grew up with that featured the Tahitian Choir: “this glorious, polyphonic, joyous sound,” he said, “that’s moving around itself and congealing and drifting apart.”

From New York Times ● May 15, 2023

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

As the virus spreads, the many discrete problems that it has exposed in earlier stages of the pandemic are now congealing into one epic challenge.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2020

Artists are still getting themselves organized, shows are still congealing and some curators are probably still scratching their heads.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

I found my dad in the pub at the same table where he’d been, a half-eaten plate of beef and gravy congealing into grease before him.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs