as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
this fruit juice is taking longer to jelly than I expected
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Recent Examples of jelly
From here, the longest run in the region is a leg-jellying 15 kilometer, 2,000-meter descent back down to Gaislachkogl.
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CNN,
26 Oct. 2017
And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos.
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Diana Pearl,
PEOPLE.com,
12 July 2017
Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts.
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Meredith Blake,
latimes.com,
15 May 2017
Or millions, all at once, literally jellying up the works.
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Evan Ackerman,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Oct. 2013
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CNN,
26 Oct. 2017
And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos.
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Diana Pearl,
PEOPLE.com,
12 July 2017
Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts.
—
Meredith Blake,
latimes.com,
15 May 2017
Or millions, all at once, literally jellying up the works.
—
Evan Ackerman,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Oct. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jelly
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Any apprehensions about whether a first-time collaboration between Hartford’s two largest self-producing theaters — Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford — could gel smoothly enough to grasp all the nuances of this challenging work are dispelled immediately by the opening number.
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Right wing had long been a problem position, with No 10s such as Xavi Simons often being forced wide to plug a hole, or orthodox wingers failing to gel with the uber-attacking full-back Denzel Dumfries.
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When asked for comment about what the president said, a spokesman for Mamdani referred CBS News New York to the mayor's statement from Thursday night after the Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents for two years.
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There is no shortage of policy proposals for reducing college costs, ranging from freezing tuition to canceling student debt.
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