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Recent Examples of gelatinous
The mixture, which is thick and more gelatinous than flegg, has a neutral taste but can be texturally grainy.
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Angela Haupt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Squishy, pale and gelatinous, the blobfish isn’t winning any beauty pageants.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was declared the world’s ugliest animal.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
Sunfish reside in open waters across the globe in tropical and temperate oceans and feed on mainly jellies and other gelatinous zooplankton like salps, squid, fish, crustaceans and algae.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
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Angela Haupt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Squishy, pale and gelatinous, the blobfish isn’t winning any beauty pageants.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was declared the world’s ugliest animal.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
Sunfish reside in open waters across the globe in tropical and temperate oceans and feed on mainly jellies and other gelatinous zooplankton like salps, squid, fish, crustaceans and algae.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gelatinous
Adjective
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Etna's lava flows are also normally viscous and slow-moving, often allowing authorities to intervene to redirect flows that threaten communities.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
2 June 2025
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The texture is viscous, like any serum, and not too watery.—
Catharine Malzahn,
Glamour,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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Cook until the edges are crispy and the middle is gooey but cooked through.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
15 June 2025
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Scientist Richard Arnott told National Geographic that the fish only looks so gooey because of rapid depressurization when its brought to the surface.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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With a rocker’s bleached-out shag, ropy arms vined with tattoos and jangly silver bracelets, and skintight jeans slashed by rips and rivets, Mr. Webb was a proudly resolute bearer of the punk-glam torch, even as the decades moved inexorably along.—
Penelope Green,
New York Times,
16 Apr. 2020
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Nearly 2m Ukrainians have arrived since 2014, pushed by a ropy national economy and a war in the country’s east, and pulled by higher wages in Poland.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
22 Feb. 2020
Adjective
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Often, Marvin came up with performances on the spot as DoP Ruslan Fedotov filmed – for instance, writhing in a glutinous pool of mud.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
12 Jan. 2025
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Testers found that The Only Bean’s edamame pasta absorbed the sauces and flavors of their favorite dishes beautifully, and as a bonus, cooked faster than your standard glutinous options.—
Grace McCarty,
SELF,
13 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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New & Noteworthy Sour Patch Kids Strawberry-Watermelon Glow Ups, the first-ever gummy candy that glows under blacklight.—
Adam Mills,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
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Bonbon The Swedish candy shop will open just off Main Street in Sag Harbor, surely delighting kids—and parents—of all ages with their sour gummy candies and marshmallows.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
23 May 2025
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“Gelatinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gelatinous. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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