icebox
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Parpart wasn’t the first to do this; in 1913, Fred W. Wolf patented an electric refrigerator that consisted of a refrigeration unit placed on top of an icebox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Miraculously, the line of people that usually snakes down Melrose yearning for a slice of chef Karla Subero Pittol’s passion lime fruit icebox pie is nonexistent today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
Airport authorities and police seized six pieces of rhinoceros horn and around 12 kilograms of unidentified meat used to conceal them inside a polystyrene icebox.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
For me, trifles sit in the same category as icebox cakes—slightly chaotic, unexpectedly good and suspiciously easy.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
A lunch counter, a few tables, an alcove harboring a hot grill and an icebox and a radio—that’s all there is to Hartman’s Cafe.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Before electric refrigeration, households relied on iceboxes, which required frequent deliveries of heavy blocks of ice, constant draining of meltwater and careful food planning to avoid spoilage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
They then numbered and packed the samples so they could be carried down the mountain in iceboxes and then transferred via four-wheel-drive vehicles to refrigerated trucks further down the mountain.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
The tool, which allows doctors time to improve the liver’s condition, could increase the supply of organs eligible for donation, transforming a decades-old transportation process that still relies on antiquated methods, such as iceboxes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
The so-called "iceboxes", notorious among migrants, are extremely cold rooms or cubicles in US Border Patrol migrant processing facilities.
From BBC ● May 23, 2021
I knew eggs were kept in cool places, so I looked in iceboxes and basements.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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