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
I disregarded their advice when I enjoyed my first bite of Dubai-inspired chocolate, purely because I was too excited — and impatient — to refrigerate the bar.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 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
As firefighters continue to battle a stubborn and complex fire at a massive refrigerated warehouse in Boyle Heights, residents and businesses owners have expressed frustration and health concerns as neighorhoods have been engulfed by smoke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The fruit is pre-cooled for five hours before being packed and transported in refrigerated vans and then stored in cold rooms before being air freighted.
From BBC ● May 25, 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
Then he and his wife, whose name is Margaret Ann, wrap them in a refrigerated shipping bucket, which will keep the flowers hydrated.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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Higher fuel prices have increased the cost of transporting and refrigerating perishable foods.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
There’s something that just feels right about refrigerating eggs.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2025
Just be careful about refrigerating smaller vegetables, like fresh broccoli, cauliflower and carrots, because they have low water content.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024
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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