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
Ferrell gelled with each of them and everybody else, doing the Will Ferrell thing, which still works tremendously well after all these years.
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Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
Liquid batches can separate or gel over time, so give it a good shake or stir before each use.
—Ryan Brennan
may 13, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026
Families pile in with kids decked out in their Sunday best — bows in their hair, fluffy dresses, cowlicks gelled down.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
Some recipes also include pectin, a natural gelling agent that helps the jam set to a spreadable texture.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
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Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
Liquid batches can separate or gel over time, so give it a good shake or stir before each use.
—Ryan Brennan
may 13, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026
Families pile in with kids decked out in their Sunday best — bows in their hair, fluffy dresses, cowlicks gelled down.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
Some recipes also include pectin, a natural gelling agent that helps the jam set to a spreadable texture.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gel
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Dodgers left-hander Justin Wrobleski shouted two words — the first of which didn’t appear to be fit for print — and strode off the mound, the icy expression on his face frozen in place all the way to the dugout.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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But it's also made people even more skeptical of public figures whose appearances seem naturally frozen in time.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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Spritzing the end of the thread with hairspray will stiffen it just enough to be able to be threaded more easily, but keeps enough flexibility to be used.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
27 May 2026
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One was to basically put on the record and call out everything that this FCC has done to try to bring Disney to heel but also to encourage it and other broadcasters to stiffen their spine.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 May 2026
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The placement on Favre’s 350-yard shot had been dead-on and the lungs were jellied.—
John B. Snow,
Outdoor Life,
11 Dec. 2025
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Small Batch is one of the few businesses in the region taking a chance on jellying the fruit, despite seeing little interest.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 June 2025
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Barkey and Zegras are roommates — and jelled just as well as linemates.—
CBS News Philadelphia Staff,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
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From day one, everybody clicked and jelled well.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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As most of the scientific books tell us, coagulating protein at lower temperatures produces more tender clumps; adding a little water or cream makes an omelet tenderer still.—
Jeffrey Steingarten,
Vogue,
5 Apr. 2026
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Two dented blue bottles of Cuajo Titanium, a liquid coagulating enzyme used to curdle milk, remained on a wooden table, caked in mud.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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Before freezing, blanching the potatoes gelatinizes surface starches, and freezing encourages those starches to reorganize into a firmer structure.—
Anne Wolf,
Martha Stewart,
8 Feb. 2026
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Starches swell with heat and water, gelatinizing to give dough its airy lift.—
Sanjay Srivastava,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The drug is designed to rapidly block platelets from clumping and restricting blood flow, lessening the adverse outcomes of a heart attack.—
Justin Zacks,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
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Unlike standard carbon filters, these molecular cages force PFAS molecules to clump together inside a cavity, achieving a 98 percent removal rate.—
Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
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Since then, speculation has congealed into reality.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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Engineers even worried that slow-moving crude would congeal inside the pipeline, creating waxy buildup that could turn TAPS into the world’s biggest tube of ChapStick.—
Jennifer A. Dlouhy,
Fortune,
24 May 2026
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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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