cold water

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In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025

Since 2018 the 48-year-old has spun yarns including a Hollywood-style sign on a mountain to a nudist cold-water swimming club at a lake.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

Federal officials said the changes under the new rules include provisions aimed at managing cold-water reservoir releases from Shasta Dam to help endangered winter-run Chinook salmon survive.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

The finding, published today in Current Biology, greatly expands the range of corallicolids, suggesting the parasites infect a range of organisms related to coral, like sea anemones and other cold-water marine invertebrates, around the world.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

He unscrewed his razor and held it under the cold-water tap.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger