freeze
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Home sales still haven’t recovered from that rapid freeze four years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
IPO volume surged in 2021 before going into a several-year freeze that began to thaw in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
During the Schertz City Council meeting on Sept. 15, council members accepted the city’s latest $309,000 vehicle authority grant, with roughly $100,000 intended to be used for 41 Flock cameras before the funding freeze.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Their analysis showed that the longer melt season was caused mainly by later autumn freeze up, rather than by a large shift toward much earlier spring melting.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
I look down to make sure my note cards are in order, and then I freeze.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
Tomlinson has a bit from her first Netflix special “Quarter-Life Crisis” about your 20s being a period to “fish trash out of the lake before it freezes over.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
In the 1980s, freezes ruptured oranges’ cell membranes and turned new growth black.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Library freezes fines, receives magazine 132 years overdue.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
A woman who freezes her eggs at 30 and uses them at 40 still experiences pregnancy at 40, with the higher risks of preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and cesarean delivery that accompany advanced maternal age.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
Before that happens he dips his hands in the cold water and freezes them to the oar handles so he can’t let go.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
The Raptors temporarily froze the Leonard trade after the NBA announced Toronto would inherit any penalties assessed to Leonard following its investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Soon after being sworn in, he froze research funding at some universities and demanded changes in faculty and curriculum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
Lisabeth froze the rock and used X-rays to observe how ice formed inside the tiny spaces between individual grains.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Gran froze with a bit of chicken raised to her mouth.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
What’s different, now, is that other automakers in the U.S. are largely frozen in place after taking a battering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Things like frozen truffle mac and cheese and saag paneer are now commonplace.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
He said he was "glad" to have frozen fuel duty until the end of the year and brought 'fuel finder' apps to help people find the cheapest petrol stations.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Ice loss in Antarctica, meanwhile, is threatening penguin populations on the frozen continent.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
I held my palms in front of me and snarled my lips like I was frozen in carbonite.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Emperor penguins rely on stable sea ice to live, hunt and breed and their chicks can perish if they fall in freezing water before developing waterproof feathers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Freshman Eli Zamorano of Sierra Canyon thinks he’s in Green Bay with freezing temperatures walking in the rain to show everyone he’s ready.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Universities across the country are slashing admissions to doctoral programs and freezing faculty hiring as they come under financial strain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
While Wembley offers unmatched prestige, exposing tens of thousands of fans and a massive international broadcast operation to potentially freezing temperatures, wind and rain was deemed unacceptable.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Except before he could get it off, freezing water started to seep up from the ground, soaking his boots.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
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