icy
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When players cooled themselves with cold drinks and icy towels during short breaks and took longer halftimes, their core temperatures and cardiovascular strain lowered considerably more than they did after only passive breaks, Brown wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Edgoose says the icy temperatures are especially great during a spell of hot weather and the staff have "probably got the best job at the moment".
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
In January 1851, Ulysses S. Grant, then an Army quartermaster, slipped on an icy sidewalk in Detroit and sprained his leg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
According to the research team, the comet's upper layers likely shielded the methane ice until solar heating penetrated deeper into the icy interior.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
He staggered, tripped, and fell hands-first into the icy lake.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
What killed in Austin drew a decidedly icier reception in Boston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
But as harp seals move north to colder, icier habitats, such as off Baffin Island, they may face a new threat: polar bears.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
In more frigid and icier environments, they depended more on animals and fish.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In New York City, where the snowfall totals ranged widely — four inches on Staten Island, 8.3 inches in Manhattan, 13.1 inches in Queens — life was largely back to normal on Sunday, if icier.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
The broad-leafed trees become smaller, there are more pines, the air cools, the sky turns an icier blue: we’re heading away from spring.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
"That day will come as surely as spring comes after even the iciest of winters," he insisted from the dock, addressing anyone who might hear, against all the odds.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2023
His final trek to history began under the iciest conditions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
The new study indicates that one of the world’s coldest and iciest regions has already hit that threshold.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 20, 2023
After wallowing around in the gross-out bad behavior of the Sokes, Thurman is the ray of sunshine that melts even the iciest Chicago snow; the sweetness that cuts through the acid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2016
“Mr. Jackson spoke with me about the incident in the yard,” she said in her iciest voice.
From "George" by Alex Gino
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