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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By night, the Torne River freezes into silence and the northern lights unfurl in ribbons of green and violet.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Shortly after Air France Flight 447 left Rio De Janeiro for Paris, the plane’s airspeed sensors froze over—a relatively routine, transitory instrument loss due to high-altitude icing.—
David Autor,
The Atlantic,
24 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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Full sun Soil Type: Average, well-draining Soil pH: 6 to 7.5 Also known as hummingbird mint, this upright, clumping perennial has pretty spikes of flowers in shades of red, pink, coral, yellow, white, purple or hot pink from summer to early fall.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
20 June 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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All those flaws have congealed in the squalid presidency of Donald Trump, who is more openly contemptuous of human rights than any president since Nixon—and lacks any of Nixon’s strategic vision.—
Gary J. Bass,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2018
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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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According to the Mayo Clinic, hemophilia occurs when a clotting factor is either missing or present at low levels.—
Beth Warren,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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While risky for astronauts, these adaptations have delivered profound insights into conditions like hypertension, clotting disorders and heart failure—insights that are now transforming cardiovascular care on Earth.—
Shelli Brunswick,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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