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

“They kind of take the randomness and they congeal it back into the volume. That’s the way of going from randomness to content. And that’s how you can make random videos.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

He shook his head, like that would make this congeal a bit more.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

He evaluates one and says, “It’s been over-oiled. Oil congeals over time and combines with dog hair.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2022

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

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

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

Other sounds, be it his wife popping chewing gum or a neighbour's dog barking, and some smells, such as congealed fat or grease, and sights such as fluorescent lights, have always made him very uncomfortable.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2024

Jonathan Zaback wrote on a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that included an image of a congealed, hard-to-identify entree.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2023

All the totems of Bull’s disenchantment with the South could be carved from pillars of congealed grits.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

That kind of speculation can be deadly in show business, with whispers congealing into conventional wisdom, often resulting in an irrecoverable position of weakness in the view of Hollywood’s creative community.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

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

What did worry him to no end was the ominous fit between Burr’s political skills and the opportunities for mischief so clearly available in a nation whose laws and institutions were still congealing.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis