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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

As Flores held court in the driveway, he rolled up a pant leg to show a sore from his diabetes and said that on the streets he’d have nowhere to refrigerate his insulin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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

Working inside a refrigerated metal chamber, she carefully adjusts a mounted tumor, roughly the size of a pinkie fingernail, toward a sharp cutting blade.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

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

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

Gabriel and Allys both got ready-made sandwiches from the refrigerated section.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

Briefly refrigerating the chocolate-coated cereal helps set the chocolate and means you’ll end up with more-distinct pieces with a thinner, more even dusting of confectioners’ sugar.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 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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