as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
biomedical applications for substances that gelate in water
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Let the mixture sit overnight in the fridge—the seeds will gel and expand into a pudding-like consistency.—
Devineé Lingo, M.S.,
Health,
11 Mar. 2025 -
Bay Area: might be too much to ask three new players to gel so quickly.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Along with the threat of wildfires, other parts of the country will experience frigid temperatures, with central Mississippi, nearly all of Alabama and most of Georgia under frost and freeze warnings on Friday.—
Kenton Gewecke,
ABC News,
21 Mar. 2025
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But the region has so far refused to touch the $229 billion of Russian central bank cash sitting in the European Union, frozen after Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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After a second quarter defensive letdown, the Heat stiffened against a team that leads the league in points per 100 possessions, at 122.4.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025
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Exercise Too much sitting can cause muscles to stiffen, and moving around more can help ease aches and pains.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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Hope needs to find hope and coagulate into a giant hope.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 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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“Gelate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gelate. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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