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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

Cover the dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes to overnight.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 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

Pluralistic moralism simply makes their teeth chatter, it refrigerates the very heart within their breast.

From Pragmatism by William James

Perishable goods such as seafood and dairy are particularly vulnerable because refrigerated transport is more fuel-intensive, said David Ortega, an economist at Michigan State University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Perishables can’t be warehoused to wait out a price spike, they require diesel-dependent refrigerated trucking constantly,” Lempert said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Frozen and refrigerated goods, such as fresh produce, are most sensitive to price increases because diesel is typically used to power both cold storage and transportation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 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

For dinner, I microwaved a refrigerated bufriedo the Colonel had snuck out of the cafeteria.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

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

So there’s no need to let food cool before refrigerating it.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2023

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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