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Recent Examples of stone-cold
Plus, stone-cold shooting haunted Northfield in the first half.
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2026
Houston beat us, stone-cold beat us.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
Deep Space Nine, or Diane Keaton’s ex in Manhattan, or André’s dinner guest, or the stone-cold-serious playwright of The Designated Mourner, or even the boy who grew up with the mid-century New Yorker crowd.
—Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Carhartt's Detroit jacket is a stone-cold classic.
—Adam Cheung, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2026
And now the daughters and granddaughters of the Ladies Aid and League of Catholic Women’s groups are organizing food, shelter, and finances against stone-cold invaders.
—Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
Secretary Kristi Noem is a stone-cold liar and has zero credibility.
—Ali Bauman, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
John Malkovich plays the stone-cold President Snow in pre-recorded videos that bookend the arena, looming over the show’s Katniss Everdeen in a crisp, white suit.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
Two otherwise healthy, stone-cold-normal children died.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2025
Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2026
Houston beat us, stone-cold beat us.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
Deep Space Nine, or Diane Keaton’s ex in Manhattan, or André’s dinner guest, or the stone-cold-serious playwright of The Designated Mourner, or even the boy who grew up with the mid-century New Yorker crowd.
—Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Carhartt's Detroit jacket is a stone-cold classic.
—Adam Cheung, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2026
And now the daughters and granddaughters of the Ladies Aid and League of Catholic Women’s groups are organizing food, shelter, and finances against stone-cold invaders.
—Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
Secretary Kristi Noem is a stone-cold liar and has zero credibility.
—Ali Bauman, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
John Malkovich plays the stone-cold President Snow in pre-recorded videos that bookend the arena, looming over the show’s Katniss Everdeen in a crisp, white suit.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
Two otherwise healthy, stone-cold-normal children died.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stone-cold
Adverb
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The animals can recover from their cold-stunned state.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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All told, the five sites collected 5,195 dead or cold-stunned iguanas.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Plus, the Horns play a defensively intensive brand of ball that’s fearless in scope and in many cases in 2026, downright scary.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
2 Apr. 2026
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Nature footage from Planet Earth II was downright lifelike thanks to the bright highlights and balanced colors.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Those undeserving objects of their contempt absolutely ought to be afforded such minimal dividing space.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
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But if your current option is overpriced cable or slower DSL, 5G home internet is absolutely worth considering.—
Ken Colburn,
AZCentral.com,
29 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Not a lot of acts are going for broke right now, especially when plenty of musicians are just plain broke.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
Pitchfork,
30 Mar. 2026
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Bread flour, whole wheat flour, all‑purpose white flour, masa, purple cornmeal, medium‑ground yellow cornmeal, plain fine cornmeal, semolina flour, barley flour, and sorghum flour.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Stone-cold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stone-cold. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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