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- verb Present participle of
congeal .
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Examples
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Re the "rapidly congealing conventional wisdom": "rapidly congealing" is probably the operative state.
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When the water evaporates a kind of congealing process sets in, -- a sort of atmospheric change, don't you know?
The Stillwater Tragedy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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Or do we all agree to take a stand, here and now, against so many of our beloved basic cable networks all congealing into variations on two basic themes: The Movie and TV Rerun Network or The Deeply Depressing Cheap-o Reality TV Network?
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The bathroom was streaked with red, bloody towels congealing in the bottom of the tub like bandages on a clotting wound.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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All these years, it's been festering and congealing ......
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The bathroom was streaked with red, bloody towels congealing in the bottom of the tub like bandages on a clotting wound.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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“Come on,” I whisper to my mother, still planted in the kitchen chair in front of her plate of cold congealing meat.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Her lobster tail is getting cold, drawn butter congealing.
The Scientist's Wife John Wentworth Chapin 2011
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South Korea's sex ratio at birth reached 115 to 100 in the 1990s but has since fallen back to 107, thanks to what Mr. Eberstadt calls a "spontaneous and largely uncoordinated congealing of a mass movement for honoring, protecting and prizing daughters."
The Mounting Tragedy of Missing Baby Girls Matt Ridley 2012
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“Come on,” I whisper to my mother, still planted in the kitchen chair in front of her plate of cold congealing meat.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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