freeze
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Others slept in tents and sleeping bags in their living rooms as indoor temperatures dropped, and water pipes would freeze and burst.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
It’s clear already that CBA uncertainty won’t fully freeze the market in November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
Mollie Mulheron, 28, said she was unable to freeze her eggs before chemotherapy because her cancer was so aggressive she needed urgent treatment.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
A day earlier, a wave of data-center opposition had helped candidates promising to freeze development win statehouses in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan—all major states for data-center sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Every trickle of noise made Nhamo freeze and her body break out in sweat.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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At about 0030 GMT Friday, Binance said all deposits and withdrawals had been "temporarily suspended while our team conducts security checks, freezes funds, and works with law enforcement."
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The image freezes in time a single wingbeat from a common carder bumblebee as it prepares to land on a flower.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
Polymarket’s chief competitor, Kalshi, doesn’t, though that company inspects funds withdrawn to different payment mechanisms and freezes suspicious payments, a person familiar with that company’s protocols said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Instead of running away, the thing freezes, eyes wide, fur bristling.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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Stablecoin providers and others quickly froze about $2.8 billion of Binance’s stolen assets, but over $3 billion is likely out of reach because it can’t be frozen, according to the analytics firms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The mice froze in fear, as if they remembered the shock.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
The actor froze her eggs at age 37 and became pregnant with her twins a decade later, she recalled to Women’s Health in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Abramovich's background as an oligarch meant the government froze his assets and threatened to conduct a full seizure.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
I rubbed my eyes, wondering dazedly what was happening, then froze, hearing the hum.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Uranus and Neptune are classified as ice giants, a name that reflects their presumed composition rather than suggesting they are simply frozen worlds.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
High mortgage rates have crushed homeowners’ budgets and frozen the U.S. housing market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
An opening montage cuts between images of hard labor, horse dung and frozen laundry that’s too stiff to fold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
About £50m had been frozen by Gordon Brothers, the BBC understands, meaning Poundland bosses were unable to restock shelves across its 600 shops.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Commander Elisha Kent Kane and his crew left the frozen USS Advance on May 20, 1855.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Their house, a "freezing cold, falling down" property 20 minutes outside of Grantham, played a huge part in the singer's success.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
Federal authorities said they have worked closely with private companies to recover the stolen funds, freezing more than $2.7 million and obtaining court approval to seize or restrict access to $1.2 billion of that amount.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
"We're freezing, we put on clothes and lie down to sleep."
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
That temperature is approximately 140°F, far above the freezing conditions normally associated with experiments involving exotic quantum matter.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Danny threw himself on the ground as a freezing cold went through his shoulder where the shape of a hand tried to grab him.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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