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  • verb Present participle of congeal.

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Examples

  • Re the "rapidly congealing conventional wisdom": "rapidly congealing" is probably the operative state.

    Moving Forward on Health Care - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • 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

  • 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?

    The Weather Channel to show movies? Hail no! | EW.com 2009

  • The bathroom was streaked with red, bloody towels congealing in the bottom of the tub like bandages on a clotting wound.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • All these years, it's been festering and congealing ......

    Sanford on Wilson: 'It's time to move on' 2009

  • The bathroom was streaked with red, bloody towels congealing in the bottom of the tub like bandages on a clotting wound.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • “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

  • Her lobster tail is getting cold, drawn butter congealing.

    The Scientist's Wife John Wentworth Chapin 2011

  • 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

  • “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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