cool
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A cool number in Wednesday’s release of the July consumer-price index would relieve pressure on both Warsh personally and a policy committee weighing whether it has misread the U.S. economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“We call it a beauty mist, but it’s used Ayurvedically to cool down the body,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
A nuclear plant in northern France shut down three reactors after a swarm of jellyfish clogged pumps used to cool the units, energy group EDF said on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
"It's so cool when it's something you've dreamed of doing since you were eight years old - and suddenly you're there," Shaw told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“In theory we should let this sit and cool off first, but I don’t think we’re wrong to taste test them now, don’t you agree?”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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For DeBusschere, that scenario is important because a cooler labor market can provide the economy with more room to grow before inflation becomes a problem.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Other spots closer to the coast were much cooler Saturday, with San Diego International Airport seeing a high of 81; Los Angeles International Airport, 79; and Santa Barbara, 78.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
It will be cooler in Scotland and Northern Ireland at 17 to 21C with more cloud, a bit of rain and a blustery wind.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
U.S. stocks jumped after the July jobs report came in much cooler than expected, with the U.S. economy losing 23,000 jobs last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The air was cooler in the shadow of the black-roofed huts, a pleasant breeze rolling off Lake Michigan.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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He’d been a regular on “Hollywood Squares,” a frequent guest on “The Tonight Show,” and — most influentially — one of the decade’s coolest make-believe cops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
What’s the coolest thing at home in Brooklyn?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
This might well be the hottest summer of your lifetime, and also might be the coolest summer of the rest of your life.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
"The coolest thing about opening a GTA game case is the unboxing/opening experience," he posted, external.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
But mostly I feel sorry for myself, because the coolest thing about it was my room.
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
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Brazil’s central bank cut interest rates for the fourth consecutive time as inflation cools and still-elevated borrowing costs weigh on the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The soy sauce deepens it; the bacon crackles; the avocado cools everything down.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
As the air rises, it cools and the water vapour condenses into a cloud.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The rising air cools and becomes a "fire cloud": a turbulent mass that can generate its own winds that worsen fires.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
“They’re warm. And I’ve built the fire up again. I’m boiling some milk, and when it cools a little, I think you should drink it.”
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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Until now, identifying those differences has generally required complex equipment, detectors cooled to extremely low temperatures, and millions of individual measurements.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
However, firefighters were able to gain ground as temperatures cooled into the evening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Most cymbals are made of a copper and tin alloy that is melted into molten bronze which is poured into moulds and cooled into disc-shaped blanks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
When the burn or scald has cooled, lay cling film over it, if possible.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
She passes me the bowl of milks and a whisk, then goes to grab the cooled cake from the wire rack next to the stove.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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In the meantime, Aria Krylova, who’s worked at Anima Mundi for several years, put out the store’s top cooling agents for me to try.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Persistent high-pressure systems trapped heat over the region, she said, while dry soils reduced the ability to provide natural cooling.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
For fiscal 2027, Microsoft committed $169 billion in purchase agreements for chips, power contracts, cooling systems and other AI infrastructure needs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Similar materials might one day carry fragile quantum information inside quantum computers without requiring enormous cooling systems.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Like languages, like landscapes, like the slowly cooling cosmos, perhaps the animals and plants had descended from earlier forms through a process of gradual, continuous change.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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