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refrigerate

[ri-frij-uh-rayt] / rɪˈfrɪdʒ əˌreɪt /
VERB
chill, usually in storage
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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

“LNG plants are very electricity-intensive because of the need to refrigerate and freeze the gas,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Roll the dough into a ball on a board sprinkled with flour, then wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025

Think of the electricity bill to refrigerate a 200,000-square-foot plant.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

Sales across the company’s refrigerated and frozen unit were down 2.1%, hurt by lower volumes and prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The first deliveries landed: Seafood was up 7%, fresh fruit was up 4.9% — everything that rides a refrigerated truck was up, because the cold chain burns the most diesel per mile.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 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

From that point they will be refrigerated until they reach your supermarket.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

Just be careful about refrigerating smaller vegetables, like fresh broccoli, cauliflower and carrots, because they have low water content.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

Also, there is now a reference to refrigerating the sauce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

Which reminded me—that egg bargain sounded good, but it was kind of tricky too, since there are all the rules about refrigerating and the glass eggs and who knew what the Speckled Sussex would lay.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones




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