1
as in to form
to take on a definite form
our ideas for the marketing campaign are just beginning to jell
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2
as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
the sauce will jell once it cools down
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Recent Examples of jell
Rempe, Edström and Sam Carrick have been jelling as a line, with Rempe negating a Carrick first-period goal by being a couple of strides offside.
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Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
The endlessly charming ensemble has really jelled together and bonded with the material, making for terrific chemistry and energy.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
But this team has every opportunity to jell into something cohesive and sneak its way back to respectability.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2024
Eric liked the idea of collaborating with others, but his collaborations never really jelled.
—Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
The endlessly charming ensemble has really jelled together and bonded with the material, making for terrific chemistry and energy.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
But this team has every opportunity to jell into something cohesive and sneak its way back to respectability.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2024
Eric liked the idea of collaborating with others, but his collaborations never really jelled.
—Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jell
Verb
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The events and Fellowship form part of a month-long BFI celebration of Cruise’s film career, with a season of 27 films featuring Cruise screening throughout May in the British capital.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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Lee agreed, and the pair formed a close friendship in his final years.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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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
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The endgame manages to gel the best parts of Split Fiction together and delivers a showstopping, genre-fusing, radical evolution of everything that comes before it.—
Kyle Wilson,
Rolling Stone,
4 Mar. 2025
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Each chapter offers guidance to crystallize an athlete’s focus, creating the type of confident calmness that Citron has been seeking her entire career.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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In response, the Trump administration has been striking a different tone this time around – one crystallized on Sunday by Mr. Trump’s second-in-command.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
11 Feb. 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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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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Jarrett has spent the last decade solidifying a reputation as a high-motor defensive disruptor with a special combination of quickness and power.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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Toppin converted that 3-pointer — a silencer that solidified a 132-130 overtime victory at Target Center in Minneapolis.—
Zach Powell,
The Athletic,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Jell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jell. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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