freeze
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Meanwhile, universities continue to struggle with their finances after a long-term freeze in domestic tuition fees and a fall in international student numbers.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Ocasio-Cortez flagged this in an Instagram story discussing why women might freeze eggs.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
But if she has the resources, she can freeze her eggs and perhaps buy herself a little time.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“The rollout of this surcharge is a debacle,” said Randy Mastro, a lawyer for the plaintiffs who also brought the lawsuit against Mamdani’s rent freeze earlier this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Instead of using my akrafena to deflect it, I freeze in place—watching the projectile soar toward me.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Webb's observations effectively "freezes" the planetary nebula at one moment in its long evolution, but the consequences of the star's death are continuing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Any of these outcomes are possible for AOC and any other woman who freezes her eggs.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
The decree published on Friday immediately freezes her assets, citing a legal mechanism aimed at preventing the commission of "new acts of interference", the finance ministry said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Subscriptions to all the streaming services, from Apple TV to Netflix, will continue to remain live until the bank receives her death certificate and finally freezes her account.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Like if she burns her hand on a pan, or if her computer freezes when she's trying to print something.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
During that winter, the farmhouse's cellar flooded, the pipes froze and "the tractor just decided to go kaput".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
I may or may not have rolled my eyes, expecting to see a spider—something my North London upbringing taught me to care little about—when I froze.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Berk raised a series of text messages where Hernandez suggested she had bipolar disorder, but Olmedo froze that line of questioning as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The shop says the bank froze its payments in 2025 over a “prohibited industry” designation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Suddenly, Wolf froze: ears rammed forwards, one forepaw raised.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Gen Z is pushing back against influencers, delighting in Obama-era signifiers like frozen yogurt and fighting off the “tradwife” trend.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
That contributed to the popularity of other DIY pickle-infused drinks, including pickle lemonade, pickle margaritas and this summer, white wine with frozen pickle slices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of debris from asteroids or comets - a snowball of frozen rock and gas orbiting the Sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Of the 10 percent who retrieved their frozen eggs, 34 percent became pregnant, and 29 percent had a live birth.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
An impulse to run came over me, but I was frozen in place.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The shots were for the second round of freezing her eggs, a medical procedure that can give women more time to have children.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
But homeowners can see much bigger monthly bills during the scorching summer or freezing winter months, when they might run their heating or air-conditioning systems more aggressively.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Over the weekend, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a video of herself doing a hormone injection as part of the process of freezing her eggs.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Since the pair formed in 2018, fans have watched them weather freezing winter storms, incubate eggs and dote on fuzzy chicks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
At the station, in the freezing darkness lit only by antiaircraft searchlights looking for Luftwaffe planes to shoot down, one young woman was on patrol.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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