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cool

[kool] / kul /




VERB
reduce temperature, chill down
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




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Cool and store: Let the syrup cool, then transfer it to a jar with a lid or a deli container.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

“I think it’s kind of cool when I see stuff around the house and I’m like, ‘Yeah, I printed that.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Said offensive coordinator Nate Scheelhaase: “You’ve certainly seen him go and make some throws and go and compete in a really cool way.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Scarlett added: "We will be able to see other places, it's so cool."

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

“Then I tripped. I was cool as a cucumber.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

“I’m not gonna travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut,” Rubio said.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

After Thursday marked the hottest day of 2026 so far, conditions will be noticeably cooler on Saturday and Sunday.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

"The idea of doubling the night tours and doing them also on Fridays and Saturdays was mainly to give access to visitors that prefer cooler hours," said Simone Quilici, director of the Colosseum complex.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

"It will get better when it's cooler, and when people are happier," he says.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

“Ladies, this is...this is huge,” she says as she closes the cooler.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

Among the more popular indicators monitored by Wall Street’s technical strategists, the “Hindenburg Omen” definitely has the coolest name.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

“And as a kid, you think that’s the coolest thing in the world, because it is. It’s the best feeling.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

"I thought it one of the coolest things I'd ever seen and one of the reasons I picked up and started playing guitar," he said.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

This might well be the hottest summer of your lifetime, and also might be the coolest summer of the rest of your life.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

“You are the coolest dog in the world.”

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

Companies have slowed hiring and total payrolls shrank last month as demand for labor cools.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

That creates a feedback - dry ground cools the air less, allowing temperatures to climb still higher.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Volcanic glass forms when underwater lava cools extremely quickly.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

The soy sauce deepens it; the bacon crackles; the avocado cools everything down.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

Grass cools the earth, but it also bickers with me over water.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

These data centers are housed in huge new buildings, stuffed with massive heat-generating computers and cooled by big banks of air conditioning.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

U.S. headline inflation rate cooled to 3.4% on year in July, while core CPI rose 2.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Neighbouring Hungary has so far been able to avoid a complete shutdown of its only nuclear plant, Paks, whose four reactors are also cooled by the Danube.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Almost every quantum material discovered so far works only when cooled to temperatures near absolute zero.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

He was only twelve then, but he could have been twenty-two: his quick-fire intelligence was already being cooled by gravity, the brittle self-assuredness of adolescence already annealing into the self-confidence of adulthood.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Over that period, the detector recorded around 100 antineutrino candidate events linked to residual radioactivity in the reactor cores and nearby spent-fuel cooling pools.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

U.S. stock futures were higher in early European trading, as investors weighed signs of cooling U.S. inflation that might allow the Federal Reserve to hold interest rates, and ahead of PPI data due later Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Earlier this week, authorities tried to increase the water flow to the plant - which uses the Danube for cooling - by sinking barges loaded with rocks in the river.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Outside the Gravelines plant, the largest in Western Europe, the shutdowns or production reductions affecting other reactors are linked to extreme heat and droughts, depriving the plants of the water they need for cooling.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

He selected three pies from the cooling racks lined with newspaper.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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