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
Verb
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The harder question, raised again and again at the conference, is how to write sensible rules without freezing the experimentation that makes the technology worth having.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Cover tightly with plastic wrap and freeze at least 6 hours (or up to 7 days).—
Katlyn Moncada,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 June 2026
Verb
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Volkswagen’s premium Audi brand has lost much of its luster in recent years, dragged down by trade tariffs, stiffening competition and a patchy electric-vehicle roster.—
William Wilkes,
Bloomberg,
8 June 2026
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Chronic inflammation damages blood vessels, stiffening them and increasing resistance.—
Jennifer Berger,
Verywell Health,
1 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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Its porous nature gives it the ability to aerate the soil for better drainage, so the dirt doesn’t clump together and plant roots have room to expand and don’t stay wet for prolonged periods.—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
6 June 2026
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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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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 13 Jun. 2026.
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