refrigerate
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“Because lithium-ion needs to actively cool, you’re basically paying to refrigerate your batteries or using energy to refrigerate your batteries, and we don’t need any of that stuff,” said Mossburg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
“LNG plants are very electricity-intensive because of the need to refrigerate and freeze the gas,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
As Flores held court in the driveway, he rolled up a pant leg to show a sore from his diabetes and said that on the streets he’d have nowhere to refrigerate his insulin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
Allow cake to come to room temperature, then cover and refrigerate overnight.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
Think of the electricity bill to refrigerate a 200,000-square-foot plant.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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He mentioned a machine that refrigerates and pumps ayran, a salty yogurt drink popular across Asia and Eastern Europe, which the group installed at an exhibition in Hanover, Germany.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
She refrigerates half-consumed bottles, determined never to waste a drop.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
To quell this thermodynamic threat, data centers overwhelmingly rely on air conditioning, a mechanical process that refrigerates the gaseous medium of air, so that it can displace or lift perilous heat away from computers.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2022
Pilapaña manages to concentrate guinea pig flavor after cooking and preparing a pate from the animal’s flesh, adds milk or cream and refrigerates the concoction until it has the rough consistency of ice cream.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2019
A profound reverence for a person at the same time inflames the soul and refrigerates the senses.
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville
Each new shipment of sod that arrived in refrigerated trucks costs about $250,000 — and teams likely would have to replace that sod at least once during an NFL season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
I’m talking about cottage cheese, the curd-filled dairy product that sits alongside yogurt, butter and milk in the refrigerated section of your local grocery store.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
“And for those items that are not refrigerated, stock up now, because the prices are just going to get higher.”
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
The first is already here, brought on by the rising cost of energy and logistics, which is affecting every stage of food production, from diesel-powered irrigation to refrigerated freight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
Annemarie smiled at me while Colin and Jimmy were busy loading the soda into the big refrigerated case by the door.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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Higher fuel prices have increased the cost of transporting and refrigerating perishable foods.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
And what you’re doing when you’re refrigerating warehouses is you’re simply moving heat from inside to outside.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2024
Conversely, the "Mason jar" method involves snipping the bottoms of your herb stems, storing the herbs upright in a jar with about an inch of fresh, cool water, and then sealing completely before refrigerating.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2023
So there’s no need to let food cool before refrigerating it.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2023
Which reminded me—that egg bargain sounded good, but it was kind of tricky too, since there are all the rules about refrigerating and the glass eggs and who knew what the Speckled Sussex would lay.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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