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jelly

[jel-ee] / ˈdʒɛl i /


NOUN
cream
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“So I’ll have two dinners. I’ll have a little bit of peanut butter and jelly and then I’ll have … I’ll have a steak tartare later on,” he said on the Exchanges podcast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Then the question becomes: What’s the point of retirement savings if you have more when you die than when you started retirement, and meanwhile you’re living on peanut butter and jelly?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Royal jelly provided an even closer match to the amino acid composition of bee tissues.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

One woman, Marie Pierre, is picking sardines from among the discarded jelly fish.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

“One of those jelly beans definitely had some grammar in it.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

Warmer ocean temperatures can also increase the presence of sea jellies and other gelatinous creatures, Jaros said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Marine life that most people never see floated into view, including delicate comb jellies with pulsing fairy-light illuminations along their sides.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Fancy cocktail napkins are a big seller, as are specialty jellies in flavors like hot pepper and cinnamon pear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

Yet a pair of recent studies about comb jellies raise provocative questions about Descartes’ maxim.

From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024

I told them about jellyfish life cycles—that jellies start off almost like a plant, clinging to the bottom of the sea, and how in that phase of life, they are a planula.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

The now elusive species was once common and frequently caught in the River Thames to make eel pies and jellied eels.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

In the 19th century, children gobbled chiles and mutton and turnips and jellied pig’s brain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

Datasembly measured prices for russet potatoes, roasted turkey gravy, eight buttermilk biscuits, cut green beans, jellied cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie mix, frozen pastry pie shells, whipped topping and sweet corn.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

At which point he held up a mousetrap dangling the jellied mouse.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Yet it has caused one hell of a stir, jellying the jaded reserve of hardcore automotive journalists and hard-nose collectors alike.

From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2016

A whole summer of jellying and juicing, she said, hadn’t made so much mess in the kitchen.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

In the meantime, our stomachs jellying and our necks burning, we listened, avoided each other’s eyes, and picked toe jam or whatever.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Long cooking of pectin changes it into substances which do not have the property of jellying, hence, make jelly in as short a time as possible.

From School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

The fruit juice must contain a certain amount of pectin, or jellying principle, and also a certain amount of acid.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management by Ontario. Ministry of Education




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