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Recent Examples of unfreeze
On Monday, a federal district court judge in Rhode Island ruled that the Trump administration defied his previous order to unfreeze billions in federal funding.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
If they are squeezed tight enough, Russia’s elites may come to decide that Putin can no longer guarantee their future interests and try to replace him with a leader who would withdraw from Ukraine and prompt the West to unfreeze their assets.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 2 Mar. 2022
She was instructed to press Ctrl + Shift + Esc, unfreezing her computer, but the instructions didn’t stop there.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
And this group of 15 actors would freeze and unfreeze at the same time without anybody saying anything.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Dec. 2024
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
If they are squeezed tight enough, Russia’s elites may come to decide that Putin can no longer guarantee their future interests and try to replace him with a leader who would withdraw from Ukraine and prompt the West to unfreeze their assets.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 2 Mar. 2022
She was instructed to press Ctrl + Shift + Esc, unfreezing her computer, but the instructions didn’t stop there.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
And this group of 15 actors would freeze and unfreeze at the same time without anybody saying anything.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfreeze
Verb
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Trump’s actions also thawed relations with Canada somewhat, although outrage and uncertainty over the trade war remains.—
TIME,
TIME,
8 Mar. 2025
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Gradually, the relationship thawed, but Lisa was still caught off guard when her husband offered to adopt the 11-year-old.—
Ronnie Li,
USA TODAY,
5 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The massive island will likely become an important waypoint for new northern shipping routes that open as Arctic ice melts.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Mar. 2025
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One instance sees Mio melting a metal grate that’s blocking a castle gate before Zoe charges into it to break it open.—
Kyle Wilson,
Rolling Stone,
4 Mar. 2025
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Archaeologists identified one section of ruins as a mining factory where stones were crushed, passed through a filtration system, then put into smelting ovens in order to extract gold.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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Up to 4,000 years ago in the Yellow River Valley, craftspeople were smelting tin, copper and lead into bronze goblets, and Shang dynasty nobles drank rice wine from these ornate cups.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Unfreeze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfreeze. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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