defrost

Commercial refrigerators began to warm up, some gradually, others quickly, thanks to the defrost cycle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Meanwhile in late August, freezers in at least six US military bases were forced into defrost mode, as in France.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Just make sure to defrost your lobster in the fridge overnight before coating it in mayo or slathering it in hot, melted butter.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

Because shrimp are so small, they don’t need much time to defrost.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

We tunneled into the swirling white blackness, listening to the beat of the fan working to defrost the windshield and the odd airy crinkle coming from the bag in the back.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

If you are planning to freeze some of the stock, leave an inch or two of room at the top so that the stock has room to expand as it freezes and then defrosts.

From Salon ● May 24, 2022

She defrosts them in the refrigerator and then uses them to make fried eggs, egg sandwiches and in baking.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2022

About 10% of the planet’s land mass is covered with glacial ice, and as the world defrosts, ancient creatures great and small are being unburied as well.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

Patrick Dempsey plays Robert, the divorce lawyer whose heart she manually defrosts.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2020

As the frozen fish defrosts under the hot Kenyan sun, fishmonger Mechak Juma prefers not to tell his customers that it has come all the way from China.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2019

The cake is sold frozen and needs to be defrosted in the fridge overnight before it’s ready to eat.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2025

Of that group, most of the websites were advertising successful thaw rates of 80-95% - a process where eggs are defrosted to be used in fertility treatments.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024

Business organisations said hours-long outages had caused supermarkets and restaurants to throw away food stock worth thousands of euros as fridges defrosted.

From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2023

I dumped a little too much red sauce from an open jar on a half-cup of leftover macaroni; adding a defrosted sliced chicken sausage did not help.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

The large rucksack had defrosted near the fire and Niels brought it into the kitchen.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

"Once an attacker can operate those controls, legitimate functions such as defrosting become tools for disruption," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

He’s just taken a morning stroll in New York with his girlfriend, Dominican architect Ana Amelia Batlle Cabral, and is still defrosting from the wintry chill; he’ll be fully warmed up upon landing in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

The application External link shows Zoox is looking for release from certain requirements ranging from occupant crash protection to windshield wiping and defrosting.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

Just like Christmas creep in the West – with Mariah Carey defrosting on Nov. 1 and yuletide merchandise sold side-by-side with Halloween goods – Vietnam experiences New Year’s creep.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025

They had left dinner defrosting on the counter for her, and seeing the Tupperware sweating on the countertop made something tug at Graces heart in the most painful of ways.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway