freeze
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He cast the lone dissenting vote against the rent freeze in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
"I don't think anybody is under any illusion about the financial challenges we're all facing these days - there are requirements to cut back and to freeze funding," he warned.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
"Thankfully, I managed to freeze my eggs but I can't now carry a baby, so if I do decide to have children I will have to go down the surrogacy route," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Union organizer Carrie Barbash said Harvard should instead continue the hiring freeze imposed last spring, which has led to attrition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Take off your wet things and put these on before you freeze to death," she advised.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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One of its most unusual traits is that it expands instead of contracts when it freezes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
Rent freezes have been enforced three times before between 2015 and 2021 under former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, but only for one-year leases.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Immense and imposing, formed through the downward trajectory of water from mountains as it collects and freezes, they have always moved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Many companies have adopted temporary hiring freezes to offset their own rising costs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
The bus exhaust freezes, trapping all the noise in a gritty cloud.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Kalshi froze Perez's account before any profits could be withdrawn, according to reports.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
To investigate these effects, the team flash froze bee tissues and analyzed their RNA to measure how gene activity changed after pesticide exposure.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Later that year, he twice froze during press conferences, stared into space, and had to be assisted.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
On Danielle’s flight to Minnesota, one of the flaps on the plane froze, causing an emergency landing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
I froze, just able to see the hallway and my path to liberation out of the corner of my left eye.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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A poster hung outside the school for upcoming municipal elections -- a rare reminder that life, for those who remain, has not frozen in time.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Rail fares in England were also frozen for the first time in 30 years to the same date by the government.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The answer is frozen puff pastry, one of life’s still-affordable little luxuries.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
WSJ | Buy Side: This countertop ice-cream maker delivers smooth, professional-quality frozen treats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Milk gave only drippings of milk, our one remaining hen had no eggs, and Nothing bellowed at me because his hooves were frozen to the ground.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Microwaving and freezing isn’t a reliable way to kill it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
If those nucleation sites are absent, water can remain liquid even after it has been cooled below its normal freezing point.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
"The second one was incredibly strong," said the 43-year-old, who remembers freezing inside his guard booth, overcome with nerves.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Duhamel conceded that living at his rural property permanently would come with some drawbacks—namely the freezing cold temperatures—but insisted that he would make it work if he could.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
How would they even make it through this freezing night?
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
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