as in to freeze
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
the fruit juice should gel after you add the pectin
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Recent Examples of gel
There were some promising moments in that Overwatch demo, such as when Copilot suggested a new hero selection that gelled well with both the player's current teammates and the player's play history on the current map.
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Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
Let the mixture sit overnight in the fridge—the seeds will gel and expand into a pudding-like consistency.
—Devineé Lingo, M.s., Health, 11 Mar. 2025
The endgame manages to gel the best parts of Split Fiction together and delivers a showstopping, genre-fusing, radical evolution of everything that comes before it.
—Kyle Wilson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Sean Baker gelled his micro-bangs up off his forehead for the first time this awards season and got to work.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
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Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
Let the mixture sit overnight in the fridge—the seeds will gel and expand into a pudding-like consistency.
—Devineé Lingo, M.s., Health, 11 Mar. 2025
The endgame manages to gel the best parts of Split Fiction together and delivers a showstopping, genre-fusing, radical evolution of everything that comes before it.
—Kyle Wilson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Sean Baker gelled his micro-bangs up off his forehead for the first time this awards season and got to work.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gel
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As for Estonia, Kaja Kallas, the country’s former Prime Minister who is now the European Union’s foreign-policy chief, expressed her sadness last week at the Trump Administration freezing the funding for Radio Free Europe.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Maine officials filed a lawsuit against the USDA on Monday following the agency’s decision to freeze funding to the state.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Inflation, perhaps stiffened by tariffs, and uncertainty over the future of the labor market have left consumers feeling uneasy.—
DeArbea Walker,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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After a second quarter defensive letdown, the Heat stiffened against a team that leads the league in points per 100 possessions, at 122.4.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025
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The depths are a swirl of tapioca, agar-agar and basil seeds like a hundred tiny eyes, jellied on the outside with a crunch within.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
24 May 2018
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From here, the longest run in the region is a leg-jellying 15 kilometer, 2,000-meter descent back down to Gaislachkogl.—
CNN,
CNN,
26 Oct. 2017
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This choice jells with the Spanish psytrance producer’s generally hard aesthetic: her intricate music — laced with a spiritual chants and loaded with kickdrum — is intense, as are looks favoring latex and snakes as accessories.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
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But the combination of Metcalf and Pickens will be a nightmare for opposing secondaries, so long as Pickens can jell with the more proven wideout.—
Jeff Howe,
The Athletic,
10 Mar. 2025
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But there was another possible explanation the company didn’t discuss: Blood could coagulate inside the filter if the dialysis machine’s flow rate was set too low.—
John Carreyrou,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Hope needs to find hope and coagulate into a giant hope.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2025
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Types of Kitty Litter (and When to Use Them) Types of litter vary based on consistency, clumping ability, and scent.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Apr. 2025
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Tiny grains of dust scattered across the cosmos can collect in disks around young stars and clump together to eventually form planets.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Maybe William Gibson, who was of course a kick in the ass for the whole genre, but who came along after my own voice had pretty much congealed.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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These states have not congealed into anything remotely resembling the Warsaw Pact.—
Christopher S. Chivvis,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Mar. 2025
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Treatments like clotting factor infusions help blood clot better, and new advances, such as gene therapy, are improving care.—
Christopher Bergland,
Verywell Health,
17 Mar. 2025
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An acute subdural hematoma is usually actively bleeding, while a chronic subdural hematoma has mainly clotted blood.—
Smita Patel,
Verywell Health,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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