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Recent Examples of cryogenic
Spain’s base camp in Donaueschingen has a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, a cryogenic chamber, and a phototherapy bed to help speed muscular recovery after practice or a game.
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James Robson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
Highlights of SpaceX's launch manifest this year will likely include an attempt to catch and recover Starship after returning from orbit, a first in-orbit cryogenic propellant transfer demonstration with Starship, and perhaps the debut of a second launch pad at Starbase in South Texas.
—Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
Researchers must use cryogenic refrigerators, which can cool superconducting qubits to within thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, to provide an ultracold, dark, and quiet environment for operation.
—Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
To maintain the delicate quantum states of their qubits, they must be cooled to near absolute zero—colder than outer space—using advanced cryogenic systems.
—Sandy Carter, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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James Robson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
Highlights of SpaceX's launch manifest this year will likely include an attempt to catch and recover Starship after returning from orbit, a first in-orbit cryogenic propellant transfer demonstration with Starship, and perhaps the debut of a second launch pad at Starbase in South Texas.
—Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
Researchers must use cryogenic refrigerators, which can cool superconducting qubits to within thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, to provide an ultracold, dark, and quiet environment for operation.
—Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
To maintain the delicate quantum states of their qubits, they must be cooled to near absolute zero—colder than outer space—using advanced cryogenic systems.
—Sandy Carter, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cryogenic
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The weather in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday night — clear skies and 69 degrees — was entirely different from the frigid, subzero conditions in Kansas City a week earlier, but the result was the same, another win for Inter Miami against Sporting KC in Round 1 of the Concacaf Champions Cup.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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After an earthquake in Tibet, rescuers worked in subzero conditions to find survivors.—
the staff of The Morning,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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Its infrared sensors, its ultracold location in space, and its sunshield — which blocks the light of the sun, moon and Earth — are uniquely suited to resolve the first galaxies and their stars.—
Rebecca Boyle,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Oct. 2024
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Their experiments involved shooting photons through a cloud of ultracold rubidium atoms and measuring the resulting degree of atomic excitation.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
30 Sep. 2024
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In years past, gardeners in this area have sat in limbo, trying to decide whether to plant or not to plant, because of potential freezing temperatures.—
Anthony Reardon,
Kansas City Star,
28 Feb. 2025
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Winter’s freezing temperatures are here for a while longer, but sunnier days and plenty of time spent in your garden are ahead.—
Carly Totten,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Feb. 2025
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Last week, the metro was in the icy grasp of an arctic blast that brought record-breaking cold to the metro.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
24 Feb. 2025
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The arctic air will seep south over the central and southern Plains next week and will even reach into the South, including in Oklahoma City, Nashville and Atlanta, Weather.com said.—
Doyle Rice,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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The upcoming offseason is the polar opposite of 2024 due to several factors.—
Joe Buscaglia,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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There are signs that another stretching of the polar vortex or shift in the polar jet stream will take place at the end of February and into the first half of March, AccuWeather said.—
Doyle Rice,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2025
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Her makeup, too, was equally icy, with a metallic silvery-white shadow brushed under her brow as a highlight and dramatic black eyeliner winged all the way out to the outer corner of her brows, plus a pair of light blue-gray contacts enhanced by majorly fluttery, lush lashes.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
9 Dec. 2024
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White cautioned those traveling north of Indianapolis this weekend, however, should be mindful of potentially snowier, icier road conditions.—
Christopher Cann,
The Indianapolis Star,
27 Nov. 2024
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Like the old adage about waiting a long time for a bus only to have three show up at once, Dries Van Noten — nearly glacial in the past regarding store openings — has four in the cards this year.—
Miles Socha,
WWD,
25 Feb. 2025
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The family felt the e-commerce giant was a poor home for the elegant secret agent and bristled at its efforts to expand the scope of the franchise, while Amazon executives were frustrated by the glacial pace of getting a new film off the ground, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
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In cold weather, the fluid circulating through the geothermal system’s underground plastic pipes absorbs the relatively warm temperature of the earth and brings it back to home heat pumps, which concentrate the heat and send it into homes.—
Nara Schoenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Mar. 2025
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But as the lingerie giant negotiates around a more cautious consumer, colder weather and tariff uncertainty out of the Trump White House, Hillary Super’s longer-term plans are coming into focus.—
Evan Clark,
WWD,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Cryogenic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cryogenic. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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