cold
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University students are particularly at risk because they mix with lots of new people, and the bacteria that causes meningitis is spread in similar ways to the common cold through sneezing and coughing.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“Seeing them celebrate at 2 a.m. in the cold Argentine weather means a lot.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Although the vision of turning the cold, dusty planet into a living world has inspired generations, most scientists viewed it as far beyond our technological reach.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Girl Power on steroids, Nanno prefers cold hard justice to empathy every time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
I feel a cold chill run down my body.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
But this wasn’t a World Cup for the purists—or for anyone convinced that air conditioning gives you colds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
He grew up drinking hot water and boiling fruit for soups to combat colds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
It is also included in a wide range of over-the-counter products for colds, flu, sinus symptoms, and menstrual discomfort.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2026
Vitamin C has long been sold as a winter essential, but according to Dr McCartney, the evidence simply isn't strong enough to recommend it when it comes to fighting off colds.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
“You’re always catching colds when you come home. You must be eating too much yin. Let me get you another quilt.”
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
High pressure causes colder air to sink in the atmosphere, where it compresses, warms up and dries out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
That’s a reference to how it would be darker and colder on winter mornings for children walking to their bus stops and schools.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
For something colder, Clementine’s ice cream is the most scoopable straight-from-the-freezer pint I’ve ever tried, with traditional, vegan and alcohol-infused “naughty” flavors to choose from.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
A surrounding Dyson sphere, however, could have an effective temperature as low as 50K, around two orders of magnitude colder.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
But the air gets even colder when Maddie walks by with her mom.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
As one of the coldest planetary-mass companions ever directly imaged, it is so faint that scientists have struggled to analyze its light from Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
“This happened in the coldest way possible: DA Form 3434 stated that my last day as ombudsman for Stars and Stripes is April 28,” she wrote.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
The winter of 1962-63 is one of the coldest on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The coldest Easter Sunday on record was in 2014 when temperatures at Braemar in Aberdeenshire fell to -12.5C.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Through the open windows came the faint leathery scent of cow dung, always present except on the coldest days, and noticeable only to those who had been away.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
