refrigerate
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Put tea bags in a jug of cool water and refrigerate overnight.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
“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
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 William Rounseville Alger
He poured money into the operation, enabling it to whisk berries onto store shelves via refrigerated trucks within two days of picking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Perishables can’t be warehoused to wait out a price spike, they require diesel-dependent refrigerated trucking constantly,” Lempert said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
Currently, most vaccines need to be refrigerated or frozen - but around half are wasted each year, mainly because they become unusable after getting too hot or too cold.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the larger refrigerated chambers, hooks impaled butterflied swine and cattle rimed with frost, their pale ribs gleaming in the shallow light.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
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
It specifically recommends refrigerating Dijon and horseradish mustard to preserve their distinct flavors.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
The bigger the refrigerating unit for making beer, and the longer the assembly line for filling bottles with beer, the lower the cost of manufacturing beer.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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