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
Her lips were dressed in pink gloss and her eyebrows were gelled away from her eyes.
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Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 30 July 2025
The character is described as a thrill-seeker and secret-keeper who may run into trouble gelling with the team's tight dynamics.
—Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 23 July 2025
With Clarke coming into Casa, things just clicked a little bit more easily, and things gelled together with them more.
—Leia Mendoza, Variety, 12 July 2025
Between Clark missing quite a bit of time due to two separate injury issues and the team simply not gelling well together, the 2025 WNBA season has been a rollercoaster so far.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
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Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 30 July 2025
The character is described as a thrill-seeker and secret-keeper who may run into trouble gelling with the team's tight dynamics.
—Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 23 July 2025
With Clarke coming into Casa, things just clicked a little bit more easily, and things gelled together with them more.
—Leia Mendoza, Variety, 12 July 2025
Between Clark missing quite a bit of time due to two separate injury issues and the team simply not gelling well together, the 2025 WNBA season has been a rollercoaster so far.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gel
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Progressives tout rent freezes as a solution to our housing crisis.—
Ben Proto,
Hartford Courant,
12 Aug. 2025
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So far, Walker has issued mixed rulings in the case, freezing some portions of the law but allowing other parts to go into effect, even as the campaigns try to gather enough signatures from voters to qualify for the 2026 ballot.—
Kate Payne,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Aug. 2025
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The sounds capture tiny mechanical vibrations, sometimes caused by stiffening arteries or narrowing heart vessels, that can indicate the early onset of disease.—
Carla Mendez,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
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That combination of scarcity and desirability stiffens competition and drives up prices, DeJohn says.—
Talia Wexler,
CNBC,
30 July 2025
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Or millions, all at once, literally jellying up the works.—
Evan Ackerman,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Oct. 2013
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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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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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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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That familiar lump of expectation coagulated in my stomach and throat.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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This combination might slow digestion, and the dry chia may clump together in your stomach, causing a heavy or bloated feeling.—
Morgan Pearson,
Verywell Health,
7 Aug. 2025
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It’s designed to lift, define, and dramatically lengthen without ever clumping or weighing lashes down.—
Marie Lodi,
Allure,
5 July 2025
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Storms initiating in eastern Montana are forecast to congeal into a mesoscale convective system and sweep across parts of the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa by Wednesday morning.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
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The presumption that this administration was indirectly responsible for the deaths in Texas soon congealed into a consensus in online forums.—
The Editors,
National Review,
7 July 2025
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The kidney’s main vein remains clotted off from the torsion.—
Maddie Carr,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2025
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For months after giving birth, women are still at risk for a range of life-threatening, post-pregnancy complications, including heart conditions, clotting disorders, postpartum depression and more.—
Molly Beck,
jsonline.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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