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
But so does character, which can help workers gel with their colleagues, making everyone feel more satisfied with their jobs and workplace environments.
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Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
Trading away Karl-Anthony Towns in the offseason was a confusing move so it's taken time for the new players to gel together.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Within a few years, the Hawks gelled into a studied, tight backing band.
—Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
There’s a sizable B-plot featuring Jodie Turner-Smith’s Gracie — a Bahamian woman suffering a crisis of faith regarding how best to abide by her grandmother’s African religion — that never gels with the bright white A-story.
—Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024
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Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
Trading away Karl-Anthony Towns in the offseason was a confusing move so it's taken time for the new players to gel together.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Within a few years, the Hawks gelled into a studied, tight backing band.
—Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
There’s a sizable B-plot featuring Jodie Turner-Smith’s Gracie — a Bahamian woman suffering a crisis of faith regarding how best to abide by her grandmother’s African religion — that never gels with the bright white A-story.
—Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gel
Verb
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The recent frenzy in the Trump Administration to dismantle the federal government has resulted in some VAWA funds being frozen.—
Sarah Lustbader,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2025
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By strategically freezing non-essential backfills, organizations can achieve substantial cost savings while reducing workforce size without triggering the cultural fallout that layoffs so often bring.—
Sherzod Odilov,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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At one point, the lower half of a student’s body can be seen stiffening before the student then falls to the ground similar to a boxer being knocked out.—
Rick Hurd,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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The big red button on the steering wheel stiffens suspension temporarily for keeping grip.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 Sep. 2024
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The depths are a swirl of tapioca, agar-agar and basil seeds like a hundred tiny eyes, jellied on the outside with a crunch within.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
24 May 2018
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From here, the longest run in the region is a leg-jellying 15 kilometer, 2,000-meter descent back down to Gaislachkogl.—
CNN,
CNN,
26 Oct. 2017
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But the combination of Metcalf and Pickens will be a nightmare for opposing secondaries, so long as Pickens can jell with the more proven wideout.—
Jeff Howe,
The Athletic,
10 Mar. 2025
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Context: While Jokić's monster numbers are crucial, Denver's overall chemistry appears to have jelled over the past two months.—
Esteban L. Hernandez,
Axios,
13 Feb. 2025
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Still, blood’s habit of coagulating, so useful in the body, proved a challenge outside of it: within a few minutes of beginning a transfusion, clots would gum up the needles and tubes, seriously limiting the quantity of blood that could be moved from person to person.—
Nicola Twilley,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless.—
John Carreyrou,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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View 1 Images Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have devised a biomarker test that can spot small amounts of clumping tau protein in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid, which lead to Alzheimer's disease.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Feb. 2025
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A couple of passes allow Fernandes to get forward as Maguire retreats, but his options are limited by the positioning of United’s attackers, who are clumped up together.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Powerful wind gusts and hail will be the main threats when storms first form late Monday, but the tornado threat will increase overnight while individual storms start to congeal into an expansive line.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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At the time, Charlie Kirk did not make much of the congealing conventional wisdom.—
Philip Wegmann,
Orlando Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2025
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Deep vein thrombosis is most commonly associated with clotting in the legs, which can occur after hours of sitting in one position, such as in a car or on long plane flights.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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An ultrasound or scan of the area may also occur, along with blood tests that check for clotting factors in the blood.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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