quench
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No, this project, which comes with an estimated price tag of $5 billion to $20 billion a year, wouldn’t quench specific heat waves or fires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Key questions for officials, Picazo said, will be determining how much MMA remains in the tank “and how to quench whatever is remaining.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
Consumer tastes have changed dramatically since Coke’s heyday, and Vita Coco has responded with a product mix that should quench investors’ thirst for growth and reasonable value.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
“For a lot of people, a beverage is just to quench the thirst or get an energy boost with caffeine, so yeah maybe the tea behind it isn’t really that important for them.”
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2025
I quench my instinct to clean it up.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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But quenches -- the sudden, destructive events wherein a part of the material loses superconductivity -- are a major barrier to their deployment.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
There is, legitimately, no item on earth that quenches and refreshes like good ol' water — especially when you've eaten something especially heavy or you've accidentally eaten the equivalent of your body weight in candy.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023
The river, which cascades from the Rockies down to the deserts of the Southwest, quenches the thirst of 40 million people in the U.S. and Mexico and sustains a $15 billion-a-year agricultural industry.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
Foremilk quenches the infant’s thirst, whereas hindmilk satisfies the infant’s appetite.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The sea shall save me from the sweltering land: Far out I'll wade, till creeping up and up, The cold green water quenches every limb.
From A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers by Various
I sipped on this drink during a midday walk and it kept me cool, quenched and satisfied.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025
They quenched their thirst by drinking contaminated water from a nearby well.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025
"Everything seems to happen faster and more dramatically in the early universe, and that might include galaxies moving from a star-forming phase to dormant or quenched," said Looser.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
And, finally in Cleveland, he kept teams competitive despite financial limitations and nearly quenched a championship drought in 2016 on the way to becoming the winningest manager in the club’s 123-year history.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
And out of the gathering mirk the Nazgûl came with their cold voices crying words of death; and then all hope was quenched.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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It manufactures neodymium magnets by pouring liquid alloy onto a rotating, cooled disk, then rapidly quenching and pulverizing it to freeze the delicate crystalline structure at a microscopic scale before it can grow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The primary solution to resolve this crisis would’ve been to pump a neutralizing agent into the problem tank, quenching it and making it no longer explosive.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
They are used to quenching their thirst with snow, but with little or no snowfall, they can easily get dehydrated.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
But there was a problem: No amount of dam building seemed capable of quenching the West’s thirst for water.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
When Tehlu struck the fourth, there was the sound of quenching iron and the smell of burning leather.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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