icebox
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Parpart wasn’t the first to do this; in 1913, Fred W. Wolf patented an electric refrigerator that consisted of a refrigeration unit placed on top of an icebox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Miraculously, the line of people that usually snakes down Melrose yearning for a slice of chef Karla Subero Pittol’s passion lime fruit icebox pie is nonexistent today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
Airport authorities and police seized six pieces of rhinoceros horn and around 12 kilograms of unidentified meat used to conceal them inside a polystyrene icebox.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
I’ve been thinking about icebox cakes all summer, mostly because I’ve been thinking about how to avoid sweating through my clothes and still bring something nice to a dinner.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
She let me lead the Pledge of Allegiance for the class and gave me thick slices of icebox cake from her own lunch.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Before electric refrigeration, households relied on iceboxes, which required frequent deliveries of heavy blocks of ice, constant draining of meltwater and careful food planning to avoid spoilage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
They then numbered and packed the samples so they could be carried down the mountain in iceboxes and then transferred via four-wheel-drive vehicles to refrigerated trucks further down the mountain.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
He thinks I’m a crusty old lady muttering about why anyone needs luxuries like iceboxes.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023
Instead, he shaded toward realism, but only just, creating soft, flat, crowded compositions of cartoon steaks spilling out of iceboxes and rubbery superheroes with snaking limbs.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
“If it were olden times, we might think about cutting it up for iceboxes soon.”
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
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