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 may be a period of adjustment before Smith Rowe gels with his team-mates.
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Alex Brodie, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
The State Highway Administration’s estimates gelled with that prediction, saying the best times to travel in the Washington region will be before 10 a.m. or after 7 p.m. Tuesday.
—Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 25 Nov. 2024
But this concept never quite gelled, and development stalled after Paramount acquired DreamWorks’ live-action library in 2006.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
There’s an amazing scene in the original Beetlejuice, in which the deliciously droll Deetz daughter, Lydia, is sitting at the dinner table, head-to-toe in Victoriana drip, a funereal veil obscuring her witchy bangs, which she’s gelled gloriously into spikes.
—Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
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Alex Brodie, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
The State Highway Administration’s estimates gelled with that prediction, saying the best times to travel in the Washington region will be before 10 a.m. or after 7 p.m. Tuesday.
—Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 25 Nov. 2024
But this concept never quite gelled, and development stalled after Paramount acquired DreamWorks’ live-action library in 2006.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
There’s an amazing scene in the original Beetlejuice, in which the deliciously droll Deetz daughter, Lydia, is sitting at the dinner table, head-to-toe in Victoriana drip, a funereal veil obscuring her witchy bangs, which she’s gelled gloriously into spikes.
—Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gel
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The forecast through the holiday is snow-free for most of the upper Midwest, with temperatures rising above freezing early next week.arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Temperatures in the Midwest and Great Lakes region in December usually sit around 30 degrees F on average, meaning that weather will likely be above freezing on Christmas Day.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Its members' firm repudiation of the unqualified and clownish Matt Gaetz for attorney general shows that its members can still stiffen their sinews and summon up the courage to curb President-elect Donald Trump's appetite for surrounding himself with sycophantic boobs.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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After this revelation, competition began to stiffen, and in 2012 the Ecke family sold its company to a Dutch agricultural operation, citing global competition and consolidation.Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 29 Nov. 2024
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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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The endlessly charming ensemble has really jelled together and bonded with the material, making for terrific chemistry and energy.Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
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But this team has every opportunity to jell into something cohesive and sneak its way back to respectability.Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2024
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Antonio ended up in intensive care at Dell’s Children's Medical Center and was gaunt, his blood coagulating.Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Nov. 2024
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As a preventative course of treatment, people with the blood disorder receive weekly injections of factor IX to enable their blood to coagulate, said GOSH.Julia O'Driscoll, The Week UK, theweek, 27 June 2024
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In case this is news to you, pre-shredded cheese is coated with anti-caking agents—often cellulose made from wood pulp—that keeps the cheese from clumping up.Josh Miller, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2024
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Most people combine the ingredients into a water bottle and throughly shake it to prevent the seeds from clumping together.Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2024
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Episodes don’t feel like episodes, so much as chunks of one long blob-like thing meant to congeal around the edges of each movie.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2024
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Anti-Chinese sentiment is starting to congeal into concrete pushback.Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022
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At the hospital, she was given fluids, a clotting drug and a transfusion, but her bleeding continued.Erin Edwards, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2024
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Leukemia bruises may last longer because the body is not able to clot the blood.Carrie Madormo, RN, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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