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 Rangers’ power play has caught fire in the last three games, with the new top unit of Lafrenière, Perreault, Zibanejad, Vincent Trocheck and Adam Fox gelling quickly after a feeling-out period.
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Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
If something isn’t exactly gelling, this is the stage to mix it up in makeup, hair, costumes, whatever needs to be fixed.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2026
Data coming in is starting to gel more with a heavy snow band staying south of our area, but some accumulation on grassy areas is expected for us, and a dusting on hard surfaces.
—Ron Smiley, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
Here, Segall abandons all instruments to concentrate on vocals, leaving his session players to gel into a real band.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 30 Jan. 2026
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Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
If something isn’t exactly gelling, this is the stage to mix it up in makeup, hair, costumes, whatever needs to be fixed.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2026
Data coming in is starting to gel more with a heavy snow band staying south of our area, but some accumulation on grassy areas is expected for us, and a dusting on hard surfaces.
—Ron Smiley, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
Here, Segall abandons all instruments to concentrate on vocals, leaving his session players to gel into a real band.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 30 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gel
Verb
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In general, creditors cannot simply freeze your bank account on their own.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Skies are expected to clear, and winds are expected to calm down overnight Friday, which will allow temperatures to drop to or below freezing early Saturday morning.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Moving the kink to one end makes that side soft and the opposite end stiff; placing it at the center softens the middle and stiffens both edges.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
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The long lull in excitement threatened to sap our energy, and being stuck in a car for four hours after a morning of physical exertion can stiffen the body.—
Gregory Thomas,
San Francisco Chronicle,
21 Mar. 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
Verb
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The opportunities for the hope did not jell, and the airport became available.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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With that drama in the past, the team quickly jelled on the ice.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
18 Feb. 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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A lot of the ambivalent parent discourse tends to coagulate around white cis-het mothers of a certain milieu.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
16 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
Verb
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The clumping foliage of this iris is also an attraction, and its vivid seeds in their pods are suitable for long-lasting dry arrangements.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
21 Mar. 2026
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Visitors clump around it before and after Eagles games.—
Dan Pompei,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Grease and oil might look harmless, but grease has the potential to congeal and harden, while leftover oil can coat your pipes and cause other things to get stuck.—
Alexandra Kelly,
Martha Stewart,
15 Mar. 2026
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Slowing and congealing the formless language of my thoughts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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