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Which actor was nicknamed "The King of Cool"?

cool

[kool] / kul /




VERB
reduce temperature, chill down
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




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It was a few years behind the times compared to Hollywood or Beverly Hills, where all the cool stuff that I wanted to do was usually happening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Giving evidence, Natland said he wanted to look "cool" to his peers but it was just "bravado" and inside he was "terrified".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Other unions have been decidedly cool to the measure, leading to a nasty outbreak of finger-pointing within the state’s organized labor ranks, as my colleagues Seema Mehta, Nicole Nixon and Taryn Luna reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Amazon, for example, published a blog post stating its data centers use air rather than water to cool off electrical equipment about 90% of the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Uncles always seem like these guys who get to have all the cool stuff fathers never get to have.”

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

However, a weather front will move slowly southwards taking rain across Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England and north Wales and behind it things will start to turn cooler.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

U.S. natural gas futures settled higher for a fourth straight session as cooler weather forecasts favored early-season heating demand, which could limit storage builds for the remainder of the injection season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

That allows hotter and higher seas to slosh from the far western equatorial Pacific — like Indonesia — east to a normally cooler part of the ocean near Peru, Amaya said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

So if a planet's day side is cooler than the maximum possible, it likely has an atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The air and the ground were much cooler around here.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

One of the reasons that he wanted to become a writer was that he just thought Rod Serling was the coolest guy on the planet.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

Driving "was the coolest stuff I got to do," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

That’s what he calls “extreme denimhead” behavior: wearing jeans for 1,000+ days to get the coolest fades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Yes, the group likes to go take batting practice together before football practice, and everyone agrees it’s the coolest thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

But some of the coolest kids, like Sage, made up their own words.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

The advice is to wait a few minutes before drinking so the beverage cools to a safer temperature.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

There will be little relief at night, when the region usually cools down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

The artificial-intelligence data-center build-out is boosting copper demand just as supply tightens — a combination that could keep pushing the metal higher, even if the debasement trade cools.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Lava flowing from a volcano eventually cools and hardens into rock, while water in a lake can freeze into ice during a cold winter.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

“This, Shirley Temple Wong, is an icebox. A machine that cools food and keeps it from spoiling. In America you only have to market once a week, not every day.”

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

The situation reportedly had cooled by the time they went on the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Massive profit forecasts have helped chip makers dominate the stock market this year, but the trade has decidedly cooled down, for now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Superconductivity occurs when a metal can carry electricity with zero resistance after being cooled below a critical temperature.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

But the sums needed to lift them up the divisions have cooled that idea quickly, and it is not on the table today.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

It was not the gentle breeze that cooled her.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Read next: Is iPhone 18 demand cooling off?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

While electricity powers the centres, the water keeps the servers from frying - engineers deploy elaborate cooling systems, which consume a lot of water.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Because this cooling process takes place underground, the minerals have time to develop into relatively large crystals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

"That finding shaped our choice of cooling configuration from the outset," with "advanced air cooling" chosen instead of water cooling.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

The force of his flight buffeted her back, and she watched him climb into the sky, over the trees, and then he was gone into the cooling day.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack


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