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refrigerate

[ri-frij-uh-reyt] / rɪˈfrɪdʒ əˌreɪt /
VERB
chill, usually in storage
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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

“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

Rinse and pat dry seafood and refrigerate until needed.

From Salon Mar. 14, 2025

Think of the electricity bill to refrigerate a 200,000-square-foot plant.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

I’m standing in the produce aisle of my neighborhood supermarket, between the fresh vegetables receiving their bi-hourly overhead mist and a long refrigerated wall of salad kits.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

Each new shipment of sod that arrived in refrigerated trucks costs about $250,000 — and teams likely would have to replace that sod at least once during an NFL season.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 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

“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

To survive for long on Venus, a space vehicle would have to be refrigerated as well as built like a deep submersible.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Higher fuel prices have increased the cost of transporting and refrigerating perishable foods.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2026

And what you’re doing when you’re refrigerating warehouses is you’re simply moving heat from inside to outside.

From Slate Aug. 27, 2024

Remove any spoiled or moldy berries before refrigerating.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2024

Also, there is now a reference to refrigerating the sauce.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2022

To anyone who has seen a molecular biology lab on the television news, the racks of refrigerating tanks, whirling DNA extractors, and gene-sequencing machines in Pena's lab would look familiar.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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