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Recent Examples of cold frame
Protect container plants by moving them into a garage, basement, greenhouse, cold frame or other place where the temperature stays above freezing.
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oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
Lynn Ocone, a gardening expert and an author, uses her cold frame every year at her home in chilly Burlington, Vermont.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
Ray does not have an elaborate cold frame or greenhouse.
—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023
Don’t open your cold frame if the temperature is below freezing, during a snowstorm, first thing in the morning, or in the evening or beyond, Warnock says.
—Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
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oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
Lynn Ocone, a gardening expert and an author, uses her cold frame every year at her home in chilly Burlington, Vermont.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
Ray does not have an elaborate cold frame or greenhouse.
—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023
Don’t open your cold frame if the temperature is below freezing, during a snowstorm, first thing in the morning, or in the evening or beyond, Warnock says.
—Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold frame
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The 1995 Oscars were a hotbed of another kind of cringe when viewed through a 2021 lens, with the slate including Toy Story writers John Lasseter (third row, tenth from right) and Joss Whedon (back row, tenth from right) and Best Supporting Actor winner Kevin Spacey (second row, eighth from left).—
Zach Schonfeld,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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The Roosevelt Hotel was recently the subject of White House ire, as the feds attempted to justify an $80 million retraction of FEMA funds with unsupported claims that the hotel was a hotbed of international gang activity.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2025
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Impressively aerodynamic, the Ro 80’s long wheelbase, spacious greenhouse, and elegant shape were enabled by the use of Felix Wankel’s compact rotary engine.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
27 Feb. 2025
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In greenhouse tests, plots of Palisade lawn grass were fertilized just once with either the glass beads or with a liquid fertilizer containing the same amounts of the same nutrients.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
24 Feb. 2025
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Built in the 1980s and in keeping with the arts center’s brutalist aesthetic, the conservatory is no longer fit for purpose.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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The department has jurisdiction to patrol the Homewood academic campus, the medical campus in East Baltimore and the Peabody Institute conservatory in Mount Vernon.—
Todd Karpovich,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Cold frame.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20frame. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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