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
“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
Cover with plastic wrap, weigh it down with whatever jars you have in the pantry, and refrigerate for two days.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
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
Taylor Farms maintained that its own branded salad kits were unaffected, a distinction that mattered scientifically, if not necessarily psychologically, to shoppers eyeing the refrigerated wall of greens.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
The most volatile grocery item, however, can be found in the refrigerated dairy section: eggs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Perishable goods such as seafood and dairy are particularly vulnerable because refrigerated transport is more fuel-intensive, said David Ortega, an economist at Michigan State University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
I thought of Aunt Florentine lying downstairs in the refrigerated room.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
And while it's almost always a safe bet to err on the side of refrigerating any food or condiment you're unsure about, there are exceptions.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023
Also, there is now a reference to refrigerating the sauce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
The refrigerating engineer was worried, too, when he found that Mr. Popper had practically no money.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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