icy
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These films’ icy, forbidding majesty invites re-watch after re-watch; I’ve been cueing up “Barry Lyndon” every couple of years for four decades, and it always lands differently.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Whenever he has the chance, Haaland also chops wood and plunges his enormous body into icy water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"The earliest bodies in the outer Solar System were built from 83% to 92% chondrules, with very little of the icy, volatile-rich dust that dominates later-forming objects."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Along the Beagle Channel, an icy stretch of water at the southern tip of the Americas, a concrete slab rises from hills covered in low, brownish scrub.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Playing make-believe?” said Aunt Kitty with an icy edge.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
“It’s harder and icier and transforms differently with different weather,” she said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2022
His palm grew icier and icier, until—plunkl— an almost imperceptible whisper of a noise escaped from the jar, and the Owners feet dropped—clonk!—to the ground.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
"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
Across the world’s iciest regions, communities live with the looming threat of inland tsunamis — massive walls of water moving quickly and forcefully from melting glaciers, known as glacial lake outburst floods.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 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
The novel starts on the eve of 2013, at a dutiful New Year’s party thrown by Virginia and Tripp Powers, who are the iciest of the couples.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
Akira plunged into the iciest, coldest water she’d ever felt.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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