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Which actor was nicknamed "The King of Cool"?

cool

[kool] / kul /




VERB
reduce temperature, chill down
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




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This time it is hoping that keeping a cool head will pay off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The colder temperatures can reduce the energy needed to cool facilities packed with computer servers.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

There’s nothing cool about a tennis match that finishes at 3:33 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Experts have told The Times, humidity impedes the body’s ability to cool itself naturally, because the moist atmosphere doesn’t allow for sweat to evaporate as easily, causing you to continue to get warmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

I slip my feet out of my Crocs and bury them in the cool grass under the table.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

“A cooler forecast with plenty of supply is keeping the ‘sell the rallies’ theme in place,” Dennis Kissler of BOK Financial says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

And water companies are reminding customers that temporary hosepipe bans are still in force despite the rainfall and decreased demand with the cooler weather.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

These aren’t even movies that you’d bring to the water cooler, lest you want a conversation with a coworker to fall flat after 10 seconds.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The contradiction between a relatively warm early Earth and a cooler, dimmer Sun is known as the Faint Young Sun paradox.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

“No,” she insisted, putting the bottle back in the open cooler.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe GarcΓ­a McCall

"Radial glia are the coolest cells that have ever existed," said Aparna Bhaduri, an assistant professor of biological chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

“I was like, this is the coolest thing ever,” Freeman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Among the more popular indicators monitored by Wall Street’s technical strategists, the “Hindenburg Omen” definitely has the coolest name.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Navigation apps might point out the coolest commutes as well as the fastest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

"I wasn't joking. New York is the coolest."

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

There will be little relief at night, when the region usually cools down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Lava flowing from a volcano eventually cools and hardens into rock, while water in a lake can freeze into ice during a cold winter.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Even as the labor market cools, there’s still momentum when it comes to hiring for AI-related roles, and younger generations are the ones benefiting, LinkedIn says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

While this supports economic activity, if and when the rally cools, households will be obliged to save more.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

When the sun warms the grass and the breeze cools you, it feels a certain way.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

But the one part of the market that has cooled are so-called momentum stocks, whose precise definitions vary but basically are bets that fast-rising stocks will continue to gain ground.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

By starting with warmer water, Nvidia does not need to pump in cooled air year-round.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

It was a sign of how the Manchester United and Arsenal rivalry had cooled.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Why have once-hot topics, like boosting advertising in Black-owned media, cooled?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

All that milk was piped into storage tanks, and cooled, and bottled, automatically.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

The index dropped slightly in August due to cooling inflation and an increase in the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Even meteorologists estimating cooling demand gains over the holiday weekend acknowledge cooler weather in the 11-15 day window, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Removing sulphate pollution takes away some of the cooling that had been counteracting greenhouse warming.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"This is significant because hotter weather creates more demand for power for cooling systems, driving higher electricity consumption, especially in Asia," which is home to major LNG importers China, India and Japan.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The tears run hot down my cheeks, cooling as they drip down my chin.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day




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