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absence of heat

noun as in absolute zero

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Officials and experts had warned at the start of the winter that Ukraine was on the brink of a humanitarian disaster, when a slew of Russian airstrikes targeted the country’s energy infrastructure, leaving citizens across the country facing blackouts and an absence of heat and running water.

With a brisk breeze to enhance the effects of dryness and absence of heat, we enjoyed a no-sweat Saturday afternoon.

“While each of these fibers are best manipulated by the use of heat, in the absence of heat, water and hair product can be conducive to great change.”

The absence of heat in his five-story home was something he never talked about to his small circle of friends and acquaintances — but it wasn’t a secret to all.

The marvellous absence of heat, pain, redness, and swelling in wounds treated in strict accordance with the principles of Lister, the very slight reaction when the atmosphere is pure, and the severity of these symptoms in overcrowded hospitals, tend indeed to strengthen the belief that even the simplest inflammations proceeding from wounds owe their origin in great part to septic germs.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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