refrigerate
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Businesses have shuttered, hospitals have had to turn to generators that have occasionally faltered, and residents have been scrambling to charge phones and refrigerate food.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
There have also been reports of people unable to refrigerate medication and a wheelchair user crawling down their stairs in the absence of working lifts.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
“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
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
Pluralistic moralism simply makes their teeth chatter, it refrigerates the very heart within their breast.
From Pragmatism by William James
Working inside a refrigerated metal chamber, she carefully adjusts a mounted tumor, roughly the size of a pinkie fingernail, toward a sharp cutting blade.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
He poured money into the operation, enabling it to whisk berries onto store shelves via refrigerated trucks within two days of picking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The first deliveries landed: Seafood was up 7%, fresh fruit was up 4.9% — everything that rides a refrigerated truck was up, because the cold chain burns the most diesel per mile.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
I’m standing in the produce aisle of my neighborhood supermarket, between the fresh vegetables receiving their bi-hourly overhead mist and a long refrigerated wall of salad kits.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
To survive for long on Venus, a space vehicle would have to be refrigerated as well as built like a deep submersible.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
Briefly refrigerating the chocolate-coated cereal helps set the chocolate and means you’ll end up with more-distinct pieces with a thinner, more even dusting of confectioners’ sugar.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2022
Also, there is now a reference to refrigerating the sauce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
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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