chill
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In his newsletter, the Surge, Jim explains one story that’s essential for understanding the news, one story to keep an eye on, and one story that everyone needs to chill out about.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
He was, in short, a chill little dude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
By Wednesday, the autumn chill will be firmly established and it is expected to be the first day since 11 June when temperatures fail to reach 20C anywhere in the UK.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
If the colon irrigation and hypoxia training don’t chill me out, I have a feeling the long nature walks and lake swimming might.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The chill in the air does little to dampen the energy of the crowd.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
By then, he was suffering from fever, chills, muscle pain, a sore throat and bleeding.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Two categories stood out as particularly deserving of further investigation: reproductive symptoms, including changes in menstrual cycles, and problems involving body temperature, such as chills and hot flashes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
“I had chills and shivers up and down my spine. It’s another puzzle in the Ice Age saga that we can put into place.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
In painful detail, she described the splitting headaches, body aches, chills, high fevers and hallucinations that had tormented her for days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
For days I lay sick in bed, throwing up, racked by chills and sweats that left the bedcovers soaked and sent Delsa to sleep with Norma and Héctor, swearing that I was peeing on her.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Some business groups have argued that the approval and environmental assessment process for major infrastructure projects in Canada drags on and has chilled investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In February, Waitrose said it would suspend sales of fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel due to overfishing concerns, while tinned products would be phased out as existing stock was sold.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
By the time he got home, the fervor had chilled out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The phonebooth-sized machine, where jets of chilled air ensure ice-cold comfort, only launched this year but has proved popular in a country that seems to be getting inexorably warmer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Never again would I be chilled at height.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
He’s both charming and chilling, expertly using a near-imperceptible shift in expression or tone to keep the audience on their toes.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The prosecution opposed the disclosures, saying they would have a "chilling effect" on the lone juror.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
One can imagine a slow drip of consumer horror stories having a chilling effect on people’s interest in Muse-like apps.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
On Thursday Anthropic released a 154-page report on the misuse of Claude, with an especially chilling chapter on possible biological-weapons research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Two presentations, among all, stood out in their particularly chilling fervor.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
