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
The aesthetic is impeccable but my brain did not gel at all with its tough puzzles.
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Kris Holt, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The trailer starts, as always, in better times, when the group gelled and all got along.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
And then there’s Kaytranada’s Timeless, which seamlessly gels soulful R&B house with supple, savory vocals.
—Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
But this idea that Destiny 3 is that answer, even if in a perfect world that may be true, does not really gel with the reality that has been unfolding over the last couple years.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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Cabbage, celery, and tomatoes can be frozen in soups or casseroles.—
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Today's top stories President Trump has frozen the $4 billion that President Biden set aside to keep the Colorado River flowing.—
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But Miami’s defense stiffened considerably late in the game and in both overtimes.—
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Suddenly, Arlo’s eyes rolled back and his body stiffened.—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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The quintet jelled quickly to prove themselves to Cowell and the other judges.—
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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.—
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Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless.—
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These proteins can malfunction, clump together and create tangles – preventing the microtubules from functioning properly.—
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As early as 1500 BCE, ancient Egyptians added a binding agent to their water to clump contaminants together for easy removal.—
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At the time, Charlie Kirk did not make much of the congealing conventional wisdom.—
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Aside this was a pool — five or six feet long and almost as wide — of what appeared to be the same fetid liquid, congealed.—
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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.—
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The parasite then feeds on the fish’s body fluids; to keep the juices flowing, the sea lamprey secrets an enzyme that prevents its host's blood from clotting.—
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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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