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Recent Examples of air-conditionCritics worry that the tents — whether air-conditioned or not — are not sufficient protection for detainees from the natural risks in the Everglades.—Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025 Also, Chase Park field house in Uptown had only one room air-conditioned, and the King Center in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood had a ventilation system but not central air.—Lily Carey, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025 The shows in our guide are (mostly) air-conditioned.—Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025 New York — In the heart of Manhattan, four stories below ground, the iconic Eleven Madison skyscraper is being air-conditioned using ice.—David Schechter, CBS News, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for air-condition
Also on the roster of new bakery items this season is the Mini Cake iced with cream cheese and decorated with buttercream pumpkins—perfect for sharing and guaranteed to be an instant centerpiece for any Friendsgiving table.
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Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
Things like a cake board or stand, icing bags, icing tips and frosting smoothers are essentials.
Prosecutors accused Read of backing up into O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of a Canton home where the pair was supposed to continue a night out after the bars closed that cold, snowy early January morning.
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Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Using an ice chamber, the team froze mixtures of water, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia to a bone-chilling –420 degrees Fahrenheit (-253 degrees Celsius), mimicking frigid conditions near the moon's surface.
This includes liquids and liquidy things, such as any drink, yogurt, syrup, soup, jams and jellies, condiments, or anything jarred in oil, as well as spreadables like nut butters, pâté, creamy cheeses, frosting, and dips and spreads such as hummus.
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Jessie Beck,
AFAR Media,
16 Sep. 2025
To top it off, slather with cream cheese frosting and sprinkle with pecans.
These same green spaces also help to cool down cities, which see higher temperatures than their surrounding regions because of the prevalence of asphalt and concrete, and to recycle rainwater for local uses.
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Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
But modern, cold-adapted, dam-building beavers of the genus Castor appear to have evolved roughly 12 million years ago, perhaps in response to cooling temperatures.
Gizmodo reports that some whimsical scientists have supercooled their Lego bricks in order to test for heat tolerance.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
26 Dec. 2019
Like many hibernating insects, overwintering mosquitoes depend on supercooling, a process by which an animal has the ability to rid its body fluids of impurities that would trigger the formation of ice.
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