cold water

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Dr Massey, who has swum the channel and competed in the world ice-swimming championships, goes cold-water swimming once a week but only spends a couple of minutes in the water.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025

By establishing the salmon sanctuary in Blue Creek, the deal safeguards a vital cold-water habitat for fish including Chinook salmon, coho salmon and steelhead.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2025

They collected 325 samples from nine species of cold-water anthozoans from non-coral reef environments at five locations in coastal British Columbia, Canada.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

Lupita went to the washbasin, turned on the cold-water tap, and mopped at her eyes and cheeks with a damp paper towel.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty