freeze
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Their analysis showed that the longer melt season was caused mainly by later autumn freeze up, rather than by a large shift toward much earlier spring melting.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
In a brief, unsigned ruling, the court kept in place a lower court’s freeze on the restrictions.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
“I’m concerned that my card issuers might freeze or flag the cards when they suddenly see an extraordinary number of transactions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
However, I’m concerned that my card issuers might freeze or flag the cards when they suddenly see an extraordinary number of transactions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Students move while the music is playing and freeze when the music stops or the teacher yells out a command.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Tomlinson has a bit from her first Netflix special “Quarter-Life Crisis” about your 20s being a period to “fish trash out of the lake before it freezes over.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Library freezes fines, receives magazine 132 years overdue.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
A woman who freezes her eggs at 30 and uses them at 40 still experiences pregnancy at 40, with the higher risks of preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and cesarean delivery that accompany advanced maternal age.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
The decree published on Friday immediately freezes her assets, citing a legal mechanism aimed at preventing the commission of "new acts of interference", the finance ministry said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
She lifts a finger and starts wagging it at Rosie, but after just a moment she freezes.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Turkey’s financial regulatory agency froze trading by seven asset managers and announced plans to liquidate 131 individual investment funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
During that winter, the farmhouse's cellar flooded, the pipes froze and "the tractor just decided to go kaput".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
I froze and wondered if he sensed my fight-or-flight response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
I may or may not have rolled my eyes, expecting to see a spider—something my North London upbringing taught me to care little about—when I froze.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
As soon as he stepped through the entrance, he froze, mouth agape.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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I was going to meet Robert Blake, my likely future father-in-law, in the frozen foods aisle of Gelson’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
That agreement promised to provide relief from sanctions on oil sales, grant access to Iran’s frozen assets and acknowledge a role for Tehran administering the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for opening the waterway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
There were the frozen steaks, the fraudulent university, the ill-fated airline shuttle, the bankrupt Atlantic City casinos and a short-lived dating show spun off from “The Apprentice” that was canceled after two seasons.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
Casadaban says similar approaches are being explored for problems including frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, and plantar fasciitis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Probably the race was frozen because of the whiteout, as it had been frozen at Rainy Pass because of the blizzard.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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As temperatures rise, the freezing point moves higher up mountains, so more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow, even in places that once saw regular snowfall.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
They also observed pearling with high resolution imaging of living neurons, providing evidence that it was not simply produced by freezing the samples.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
He’s had serious health issues in recent years, such as freezing up during a press conference in 2023, an incident also blamed on a fall.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Both countries have appealed the ruling freezing their funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
What I do remember: Our freezing cold house in Boston, with the cracked board on the front porch.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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