as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
this fruit juice is taking longer to jelly than I expected
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Recent Examples of jelly
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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CNN,
26 Oct. 2017
And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos.
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Diana Pearl,
PEOPLE.com,
12 July 2017
Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts.
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Meredith Blake,
latimes.com,
15 May 2017
Or millions, all at once, literally jellying up the works.
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Evan Ackerman,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Oct. 2013
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CNN,
26 Oct. 2017
And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos.
—
Diana Pearl,
PEOPLE.com,
12 July 2017
Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts.
—
Meredith Blake,
latimes.com,
15 May 2017
Or millions, all at once, literally jellying up the works.
—
Evan Ackerman,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Oct. 2013
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At halftime, Irankunda and Metcalfe came on as substitutes, and the team started to gel and to threaten.
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Any apprehensions about whether a first-time collaboration between Hartford’s two largest self-producing theaters — Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford — could gel smoothly enough to grasp all the nuances of this challenging work are dispelled immediately by the opening number.
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Gupta considers the blanket rent freeze a blunt tool that doesn't adequately address the affordability crisis.
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Identity monitoring service Aura can also freeze your credit without requiring you to contact the credit bureaus.
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“Jelly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jelly. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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