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

Plastic wipes don't disintegrate when flushed down the toilet, so when oil and fat congeal on them, so-called fatbergs form in sewers, which water companies say cost them £200m a year to clear.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 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

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

While hardly true, this explanation had the demonstrable advantage of permitting Jefferson’s vision of a Federalist conspiracy to congeal in a plausible pattern that formed around Washington without touching him directly.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

“After awhile it all congeals and you start losing history,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

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

That might be why what could have been a suspenseful mystery congeals into a 900-odd page slog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2020

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

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

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

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

These are felicitously doled out, making the book voicey without congealing into shtick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2020

There was a slackening of air, a sense of the day congealing.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 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

It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins.

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