jell

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A couple of tracks don’t quite jell with the concept, as if they were written for another project and then modified to fit here.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

The character’s motivations don’t jell, and no amount of Swank moxie can make it work.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

Indeed, “American Fiction’s” fervent admirers have suggested that its satire is merely the Trojan horse that encases a warm family-drama heart, but even that juxtaposition suggests just how little the individual elements really jell.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2024

Queer identities had barely begun to jell in Leyendecker’s era; his images helped a nascent gay culture imagine itself folded into the American power structure, however remote that reality might still have been.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Ruth sat still, letting the anger and determination jell.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison