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
The early reaction from critics on the Lido has been all over the map, with some raves, some middling scores and some who didn’t gel with the movie — or its leads — at all.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
If the Steelers' offense can gel under Rodgers, expect the 40 percent playoff outlook to jump up early on.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
The redshirt senior entered spring practices already having the playbook essentially memorized and gelled with the rest of his offensive linemen almost immediately.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
The rock band had time to gel in front of the cameras.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2025
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
If the Steelers' offense can gel under Rodgers, expect the 40 percent playoff outlook to jump up early on.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
The redshirt senior entered spring practices already having the playbook essentially memorized and gelled with the rest of his offensive linemen almost immediately.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
The rock band had time to gel in front of the cameras.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gel
Verb
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Prosecutors accused Read of backing up into O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of a Canton home where the pair was supposed to continue a night out after the bars closed that cold, snowy early January morning.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Using an ice chamber, the team froze mixtures of water, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia to a bone-chilling –420 degrees Fahrenheit (-253 degrees Celsius), mimicking frigid conditions near the moon's surface.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Yet that comes as experts say competition among convenience stores is stiffening.—
Natalie Rice,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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Despite herself, Cali stiffened.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 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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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
Verb
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Everything just kind of jelled together the right way.—
Gary Curreri,
Sun Sentinel,
20 June 2025
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The team will then break for six weeks before returning for training camp in late July, at which point Maye and the rest of the offense will have weeks to continue jelling before the season begins.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
9 June 2025
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The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
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Within hours the pool would coagulate into electric-blue slush, like a gas station Slurpee.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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On impact, the particles clump together, blocking the flow of liquids and ions.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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While the rest of Burning Man celebrated, Kruglov lay prostrate on the ground at a faraway campsite in a comparatively desolate section of Black Rock City, his throat slashed, as a puddle of blood congealed around his lifeless body.—
Denver Nicks,
Rolling Stone,
14 Sep. 2025
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Might the thrill of their ambition congeal into something like obligation?—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In one study, it was found that the disease triggered the development of sac-like molecules carrying blood-clotting proteins that increased stroke risk.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Aug. 2025
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Some patients' bodies continue to make the clotting gene for years after starting treatment.—
Beth Warren,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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