icy
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These films’ icy, forbidding majesty invites re-watch after re-watch; I’ve been cueing up “Barry Lyndon” every couple of years for four decades, and it always lands differently.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Whenever he has the chance, Haaland also chops wood and plunges his enormous body into icy water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The encounters with Jupiter's icy moons will be much more scientifically demanding.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Along the Beagle Channel, an icy stretch of water at the southern tip of the Americas, a concrete slab rises from hills covered in low, brownish scrub.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Once more Penelope felt an icy shiver trickle along her spine.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
What killed in Austin drew a decidedly icier reception in Boston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
But as harp seals move north to colder, icier habitats, such as off Baffin Island, they may face a new threat: polar bears.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
In more frigid and icier environments, they depended more on animals and fish.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
She encountered an even icier reception from Reasoner, her co-anchor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
Even packed together in the wagon, with woolen blankets to our noses, we are certain to be icier than the inside of Logan's icehouse!
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
"That day will come as surely as spring comes after even the iciest of winters," he insisted from the dock, addressing anyone who might hear, against all the odds.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2023
His final trek to history began under the iciest conditions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
The new study indicates that one of the world’s coldest and iciest regions has already hit that threshold.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 20, 2023
Within a cast of cadaver-cold characters, Marcos is the iciest.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2020
I shot Mom the iciest look I could give.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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