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icebox

[ahys-boks] / ˈaɪsˌbɒks /








NOUN
cooler
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
NOUN
refrigerator
Synonyms


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Our example came ready to fish, with an icebox mounted behind the tandem-plus saddle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Miraculously, the line of people that usually snakes down Melrose yearning for a slice of chef Karla Subero Pittol’s passion lime fruit icebox pie is nonexistent today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

Airport authorities and police seized six pieces of rhinoceros horn and around 12 kilograms of unidentified meat used to conceal them inside a polystyrene icebox.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

At Salon, we’ve revisited sweet salads, icebox cakes, tuna melts, baked spaghetti and the classic holiday cheese ball — all familiar flavors, reimagined just enough to feel new.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

There was water in a pitcher in the icebox, so I filled two glasses and brought them outside.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

Before electric refrigeration, households relied on iceboxes, which required frequent deliveries of heavy blocks of ice, constant draining of meltwater and careful food planning to avoid spoilage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

They then numbered and packed the samples so they could be carried down the mountain in iceboxes and then transferred via four-wheel-drive vehicles to refrigerated trucks further down the mountain.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

Instead, he shaded toward realism, but only just, creating soft, flat, crowded compositions of cartoon steaks spilling out of iceboxes and rubbery superheroes with snaking limbs.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

The so-called "iceboxes", notorious among migrants, are extremely cold rooms or cubicles in US Border Patrol migrant processing facilities.

From BBC ● May 23, 2021

Salinas had a small ice company, not large but enough to supply the few houses with iceboxes and to service the ice-cream parlors.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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