thaw
Example Sentences
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But in a paradox of global warming, thawing ice isn’t making Arctic waters easier to navigate.
The Agriculture Department provides a handy how-to for dealing with leftover food, advising consumers on wrapping, reheating and thawing, and handling what the agency calls “leftover ‘leftovers.’”
Eleven days later, Richard Nixon arrived in China to see if Mao Zedong was up for a thaw.
Then the fighting got bogged down in attritional warfare during the bitter winter and into the muddy, early spring thaw.
From Seattle Times
As for the planned documentary, there was no formal directive, but Scheinfeld suspects that the footage, especially of the Romanian riots, was deemed too negative to help American efforts to thaw the Cold War.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
