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
It can be gelled, emulsified, and made into just about anything.
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Alana Semuels, Time, 1 June 2026
The casting of the actors playing the younger versions of the real people is so spot-on that the fiction scenes gel seamlessly with the interviews, while the film is peppered with fragments of educational documentaries about AIDS from the era.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 25 May 2026
The interiors, updated by a past owner, didn’t gel with her own taste, but the original bones still wowed, especially the dynamic rooflines, internal masonry walls, and chunky marble accents like lintels and sills.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 22 May 2026
Ferrell gelled with each of them and everybody else, doing the Will Ferrell thing, which still works tremendously well after all these years.
—Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
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Alana Semuels, Time, 1 June 2026
The casting of the actors playing the younger versions of the real people is so spot-on that the fiction scenes gel seamlessly with the interviews, while the film is peppered with fragments of educational documentaries about AIDS from the era.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 25 May 2026
The interiors, updated by a past owner, didn’t gel with her own taste, but the original bones still wowed, especially the dynamic rooflines, internal masonry walls, and chunky marble accents like lintels and sills.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 22 May 2026
Ferrell gelled with each of them and everybody else, doing the Will Ferrell thing, which still works tremendously well after all these years.
—Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gel
Verb
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After that, freeze credit, file an identity theft report and remove exposed personal information from the web.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
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Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images With the Federal Reserve electing to keep interest rates frozen again this week – its fourth such pause in 2026 – savers can comfortably take the time to shop around for a savings account that works for them and their goals.—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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To execute its ruthless 66-pound weight loss program, the rear seats have been completely deleted, replaced by a massive structural strut brace that significantly stiffens the chassis.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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Nicks on the edge or stiffened, curled rubber will leave streaks.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
12 June 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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Raw milk is treated with heat, acid, or enzymes to coagulate it into two distinct substances: curds, which become cheese, and whey, which was, at least until recently, the cheesemaking process’s unlovely by-product.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
15 May 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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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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Using holographic imaging technology, scientists will also investigate particle aggregation to determine how the lake’s physical dynamics cause particles to clump together and sink, affecting water clarity.—
Reeti Malhotra,
Sacbee.com,
15 June 2026
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Instead of dispersing evenly over the lawn after they are cut by the mower blades, wet clippings clump together and fall on the lawn in piles or clog your mower deck.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 June 2026
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The career that has followed has been the rare one that survived a child-star debut without ever congealing into the obvious next thing.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 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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