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It’s the kind of place where the waiter prepares things tableside, like mixing a Manhattan so cold a layer of ice floats on its surface, or tossing a Caesar salad with silver tongs.

For past initiatives, like his $2 billion homelessness directive, members of Bezos’s team cold-called people they knew to figure out who to donate to, instead of opening up a public channel.

I use it every morning to loosen up my back, and if it’s too cold to run, I’ll go through a stretching routine or an online yoga session instead.

A cooler on the porch may be necessary to store meats and cold items.

It’s incredible how much comfort a nongreasy SPF moisturizer adds to your exposed skin on a cold ski day.

People are still clinging to the idea that they must “look good” when dining out, even if it means shivering while taking a bite of your lasagna that went cold 30 seconds after it was served to you.

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Sometimes you just wanted to crawl under your blanket and forget about it, it was so cold.

Though Plummer’s character appears cold and strict at first, the real act that melts him and softens his demeanor is hearing his children sing.

Though a wispy layer of fur began to cover Truffles’s raw skin, some remained exposed, and I worried about how she would manage in the cold, suppressing an impulse to swaddle her in my scarf and bring her home.

Not as cold tomorrow night, but light snow showers could develop in the early morning.

This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.

We indulge in expensive cold-pressed juices and SoulCycle classes, justifying these purchases as investments in our health.

Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.

The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.

Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.

He would shake a chilled Coke, and then spray the soda into a cold glass of milk.

Combine the cold butter and flour in the bowl of a food processor.

Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.

Scrooge is still with us, not just in print but embodied in the cold hearts and selfish calculations of misanthropes everywhere.

The execution of two police officers in cold blood has shocked the city and driven a deeper wedge between the cops and the mayor.

Aromas reveal more with the warmth, while the cold dulls them.

Then the gift card is shopped online in a gray market to collect cold currency.

On the one hand, patients may not understand that viruses are the cause of most cold symptoms this time of year.

The U.S. responded to security threats with cool heads and plenty of expertise in WWII and the Cold War.

We have no heating; there is no gas and it is very cold inside the prison.

After 18 months of secret talks, the president announces a diplomatic breakthrough that ends the last fight of the Cold War.

I am always sick because of the cold and I have suffered constant lung infections over the past several months.

The thaw between Washington and Cuba finally begins to close a chapter of the Cold War.

As the Cold War entered its final years, the film enjoyed a warmer reception in Russia.

He was standing on the corner and wearing only a T-shirt and jeans, and this was 11:30 at night and it was really cold.

Madame de Condillac stood watching him, her face composed, her glance cold.

Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.

When alone she sometimes picked it up and kissed the cold glass passionately.

Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!

Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!

Or, if I escaped these dangers for a day or two, what could I expect but a miserable death of cold and hunger?

Should the vapor not condense well, the test-tube may be immersed in a glass of cold water.

And as bronze reflects the light, her mentality seemed to reflect all the cold lights in her nature.

For a "cold collation on the occasion of the audit" our Council always allows 10.

She may be as chaste as unsunned snow, she is certainly as cold: but for warm, inspiring virtue!

Through what ages has that declaration, not to be denied, ascended to cold and cruel skies?

It stood on a sandy road, and a cold wind tickled his knickerbockered legs.

With his face thrust into the cold night air Tom felt the blood go throbbing in his temples.

Some hidden magnetism burst from him like an aura, and his cold pasty face and light gray eyes flamed into positive beauty.

But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.

But this paper was a very tough, fibrous substance, and would resist quite a heavy blow as well as keep out the cold.

Upon these fire-eaters de Robeck has hitherto thrown cold water.

The chimney was at the other end, and thus a draught of hot air constantly passed beneath the floors in cold weather.

The evening was cold and raw and so dark that it was almost impossible to distinguish people on the badly lighted little platform.

It was deep twilight in the room, and rather cold, for the eucalyptus and olive logs in the fireplace still awaited the match.

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

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