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icebox

[ahys-boks] / ˈaɪsˌbɒks /








NOUN
cooler
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
NOUN
refrigerator
Synonyms


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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

For me, trifles sit in the same category as icebox cakes—slightly chaotic, unexpectedly good and suspiciously easy.

From Salon Nov. 27, 2025

For $100 out of my own pocket, I hired a pro who typically charges $400 or more to help make my two-century-old home feel less like an icebox in winter.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

Ma wiped her hand on her apron, went to the icebox, and pulled out the drawstring pouch where she kept the household cash.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

I knew eggs were kept in cool places, so I looked in iceboxes and basements.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli




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