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An example use of gel in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… bed here it's this gel-based elastic …”
Gel is a type of hair gel.
the word gel occurs in english on average 11 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that gel can be often used in the following areas:
1) life, nature, and living environment;