cooling
- present participle of cool.
Example Sentences
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Low water levels are making it impossible for some nuclear power plants to run their cooling systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"We hope that it will happen as soon as possible and we hope that the cooling, liberating rain that the forecasters do not yet see coming will arrive."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Repeated warming and cooling can fracture the ground into geometric shapes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Jump into an affordable public pool or hunker down at a public library, free museum, or one of the city’s public cooling centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Old T.R. sprang up from under Granny’s boxwood, where he’d been cooling off, and ran ahead of us to chase Granny’s dominecker hens out of the path.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
